Archive for the 'Books' Category


Jann Wenner-This Week’s Podcast

Mr. Rolling Stone. Jann has a new book of interviews entitled “The Masters.” We discuss the artists and more. (Note: This was recorded on Monday September 11th, prior to the publication of the “New York Times” interview and the subsequent controversy.) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jann-wenner/id1316200737?i=1000628682964 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/906f2c72-6eeb-44d6-9504-e6e54a28f728/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-jann-wenner

Such Kindness

https://tinyurl.com/3mv95f7x “‘I want you to know that the way I grew up, I guess I was wired to live small, if that makes any sense. See, I came from people with low expectations. All my life I haven’t been able to get past that.’” I was interested in the book from the beginning, not that […]

Battle Of Ink And Ice

“Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media”: https://tinyurl.com/yu3n73vw With all this hype about BookTok, I decided to do a deeper dive. A waste of time. What we’ve got here is women, and a few men, testifying as to their love of a […]

The Forgotten Girls

“The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America”: https://tinyurl.com/mryc7n8c This is the real “Hillbilly Elegy.” If you want to understand the rural MAGA mentality, this is the place. What we’ve got here is Clinton, Arkansas. Not Fayetteville, the hip Arkansas, not Little Rock, the urban Arkansas, but nowhere Arkansas, where […]