Andre Braugher · LA Coroner · Andy Warhol

When I was young, I bought booze based on the label. I remember stalking the aisles of Big Red with my friend, a graphic design major, who’d point out the successes and failures of various brand identities, before we’d find that perfect nexus of affordability and sans serif fonts for whatever infernal cocktails we’d poison our 21-year-old bodies with.

I was sent back to those days reading Warhol After Warhol, even though many of the events of the book happened nearly two decades after my Bloomington drinking days. The book by journalist, historian, and critic Richard Dorment (not the same Richard Dorment who leads the masthead at Men’s Health) dropped on Dec. 5 in the U.S., and it feels tailor-made for anyone interested in true crime who also makes decisions — not always good ones! — based on aesthetics.