A biography on Joni Mitchell, one of the finest singer/songwriters of a generation in my humble opinion.  Yaffe conducted dozens of interviews those who know her and interviewed her as well 2007-2015.  He dissects each of her notable and not so notable songs, telling t...

These were a mix of short-stories he’s recently written along with some classics. This is my first time reading Wolfe and wasn’t too impressed. At the time of this book release he was a professor at Stanford, had won all these awards and was praised for his literary wo...

This is Howard’s third book, and by far his best. My, how times have changed. It’s based on his interviews with musicians, celebrities, and personalities. His interview style has grown leaps and bounds. I remember listening to him growing up, and it was all fart jokes...

This book dives deeper into the relationship between Carine and Chris and their parents. It’s an appropriate epilogue to the wildly successful book (and one of my favorites) Into The Wild. Carine shares letters Chris wrote to her, the general insanity of being in a hom...

“Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of a life.”   There’s a lot I miss about the nineties. It was an open, free time of possibilities, changes we thought were permanent. There is nowhere else I could imagine wanting to be besi...

Pleasantly surprised with this one. Robbie is one of the better musician writers out there. He was smart with this autobiography-- he wrote about his life up to the last performance of his band, ‘The Band’ and the seminal doc “The Last Waltz.” Great stories of him with...

Along with her own visits to a therapist to get over ‘Boyfriend’, Lori Gottlieb (herself a therapist) writes about a few of her patients she’s had in treatment. Most impactful was the story on ‘Julie’, who was dying from cancer. Lori does a great job describing how she...

With all the press this year it being the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock, I too got nostalgic and decided to read the latest book releases this year on the event. Though not yet born in ‘69,  the music of that time is what I listen to frequently and have all the Woodsto...

Though it’s main hook was regarding the fire that took place in the LA Central Public Library in 1986, and the subsequent case against Harry Peak, an actor blamed for starting the fire, it’s really about a cast of characters that inhabit libraries, those in-charge of L...

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interest in Harper Lee, who after writing ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, one of most seminal works of fiction in history, never published another book again. What happened?  She spent years covering a true-crime story that the book lays out in de...