“The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood”: https://tinyurl.com/39p9w4kz This is a fabulous book. I was not planning to read it. Read the reviews, reserved it at the library, but I’m anti-nonfiction, I find that fiction resonates more, and I’d just finished a couple of music biographies that made me feel like I […]

“Pineapple Street”: https://tinyurl.com/5c3vmd4b As in the book doesn’t demand much, but calls out to you and keeps you reading. As a matter of fact, once I started, I finished in a day. Because I was invested, I wanted to know how it all turned out. This is the story of the rich you don’t see […]

https://tinyurl.com/yc3anpmh This book is mind-blowingly good. But you won’t feel that way at first, you’ll think it’s a trifle, a direct lift of “Saturday Night Live,” akin to Curtis Sittenfeld’s book about Hillary Clinton, “Rodham,” wherein she breaks up with Bill before marriage and a different story ensues. I mean “Rodham” is a good read, […]

“Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska”: https://tinyurl.com/2vyfav58 It’s not the book I thought it would be. And that’s a good thing. I thought it would be a detailed explanation of each and every track on “Nebraska,” whereas it’s a snapshot of Bruce more than the work. In the vernacular, it’s about […]