“The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder”: https://tinyurl.com/3mcp7z2s Yes, this is about a boat, not a bet. Not that I could remember months after I reserved it at the library. This is a certain kind of book, that may or may not appeal to you. If you’re interested in exploration, the Arctic and […]

https://tinyurl.com/mpradk6n I want to tell you about this book. But I can’t recommend you read it. It’s called “Wellness,” and it’s by Nathan Hill. Reviews have been excellent, Oprah has even endorsed it, but the main reason I got it from the library, the main reason I dug in, was because I positively loved Hill’s […]

Re: The Only Girl Well holy fucking sh*t!  Hi, it’s Robin. A couple business associates sent me what you wrote and you can’t imagine – or maybe you can – what it means to me. The book was such a commercial flop (though it did better in Great Britain) that it wrecked me in a […]

“The Only Girl – My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone”: https://tinyurl.com/5xcn4xum I’d never heard of this book, never mind its author, Robin Green. Then again, I had. I saw her credit for years, as a writer and executive producer on “The Sopranos.” What? That’s quite a career! Now this is not […]