Archive for the 'Books' Category


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. […]

Two Books Not To Read

“Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World” by Naomi Klein “Crook Manifesto” by Colson Whitehead I love Naomi Klein and most of what she stands for, but I want my time back. What she does here is shoehorn a paradigm into every facet of life, as a way to explain every ill in society today. […]