I thought this book was going to be about the Vail fire. After all, there’s a picture of Two Elk lodge burning right on the cover! But that’s not what it’s about, not really. I thought this was a niche book, for a narrow audience, those who remember this 1998 fire. But then I saw […]

You can’t make it without a manager. With hindsight you’d think that the Beatles were fully-formed, waiting to be picked up by a label and blasted into the stratosphere. But nothing could be further from the truth. Of course there’s the story, the facts, but even more interesting to me is the identity of these […]

Now, for a palate cleanser… The number one criterion for a book is readability. It’s got to be something that people want to read! Which is why you can buy the vaunted award-winner, the book with all the hype, and find yourself falling asleep on the second or third page. Those people are not writing […]

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