https://shorturl.at/4Xolz 1 I devoured this book. I bought my first issue of “Rolling Stone” at a newsstand right by the Columbia campus in December 1969. If I remember correctly, it was the issue with Mick Jagger on the cover, with a full explication of the Altamont debacle. This was manna from heaven, this was everything […]

https://t.ly/vi5fH I loved this book! I got it from the library a couple of months ago and read the first page and gave up. I’d just finished another book, and it’s oftentimes difficult to get into a new one. The tone is different, in so many books you have to get halfway through to get […]

https://t.ly/YePv9 I’m writing about this book because it’s so readable. No, that’s not the only reason. Also because everybody involved is not a winner. Most books written about Jewish families… Everybody’s solidly middle class, or upper middle class, it’s a land of opportunities, despite the tsuris. But the Cohens? The father is a Holocaust survivor. […]

“The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon”: https://t.ly/qacea 1 ANOTHER BOOK?! I wasn’t planning on writing about it, I wasn’t even sure I was going to read it, but late Saturday night Kevin Fedarko described the experience of running the river… Being at […]