I wasn’t going to read this book. I know enough about Michael. I love “Off the Wall,” and “Thriller” is pretty good too, but as far as the ins and outs of his life… Next! But then Dan Beck wrote me a personal e-mail… This is what people don’t understand…that it’s the little things that […]

I hate oral histories. But I love “Venus and Mars.” “McCartney” was unduly slagged because it came out nearly simultaneously with “Let It Be.” People thought Paul was employing first mover advantage, making a statement, separating himself from the group even though it was John who said he was out of the band first. Yes, […]

1 I finished this book Sunday night. I started it Sunday morning. I wasn’t hooked at first, but then I got into it and… I was going to write about it yesterday, but I had two hour long phone calls and I’m still wound up after those. They were personal, not business. One the follow-up […]

It’s like an Elizabeth Strout novel. That’s what someone e-mailed me when I was halfway through “The Correspondent” and the similarity resonated, as in you’ve got normal women, not famous, not setting the world on fire, and their lives, opinions, personalities. Not that Virginia Evans is in the league of Elizabeth Strout. If you’ve never […]