Archive for the 'Books' Category


Wellness

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 […]

Robin Green Responds

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

“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 […]

Taylor Lorenz’s Book

“Extremely Online”: https://tinyurl.com/4kjthpmd You’ve got to read it. Like right now. Like click that link and start in. Because this is the key to the real America, the real world, that the boomers and the straight media pooh-pooh but drives all the viewers, eats up all the attention, generates all the dollars. Forget the backlash. […]