Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead, Neil Strauss

This book is from Neil’s original interview recordings, notes, and transcripts, and then selected the best moments from the three-thousand-something articles he’s written over the years. But instead of looking for the pieces that broke news or sold the most magazines or received the best feedback, he searched for the truth or essence behind each person, story, or experience. Often it came from something he’d previously ignored: an uncomfortable silence, a small misunderstanding, or a scattered thought that had been compressed into a soundbite. Other times it came from something more dramatic, like an emotional confession, a run-in with the police, or a drug-induced psychosis. There are 228 of them – mostly from rock stars and from his time as a writer for Rolling Stone, and then the New York Times. Great work here.