Archive for the 'Books' Category


Robin Green-This Week’s Podcast

Writer for “Rolling Stone” and executive producer for “The Sopranos” Robin Green wrote a great memoir, “The Only Girl.” We discuss just that, being the only girl on the masthead at “Rolling Stone,” and her path from Rhode Island to Hollywood and more. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/robin-green/id1316200737?i=1000639906884 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/382b6f01-ebba-4bff-b7b4-0424c5a9302c/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-robin-green

The Bee Sting

https://tinyurl.com/yur6kvdh This is an amazing book. One of the ten best of the year according to “The Washington Post,” shortlisted for the Booker Prize, but it isn’t simple to read. Because it’s set in Ireland, with Irish words, and one character’s passages are printed sans periods. But “The Bee Sting” is not “Ulysses,” it’s far […]

The Wager

“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 […]

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 […]