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 […]

https://tinyurl.com/ycxfxfye This is one of the creepiest books I’ve ever read. To the point where I constantly had to stop reading it, even though I was enjoying it, it just heightened my anxiety and made me squirm. But it’s not horror, it’s not a thriller. Ostensibly it’s about the lives of the different classes, but […]

“Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral”: https://amzn.to/41zXBPb This is not the book I thought it would be. And I don’t advise you read it. I don’t see why anybody would read it. I thought it would be an insight into virality, how something spreads in today’s marketplace. Instead, it’s […]