Lake Success: A Novel I almost cried when this book ended. I was sitting in an Air Canada 777, staring straight ahead, unable to move, never mind start reading something else. Reading was my first love, before baseball, before skiing, before music. I loved the library. I’d take out seven books at a time. The […]

Rock on gold dust woman Take your silver spoon Dig your grave I hate oral histories, but I love this book. Because it’s fiction. In non-fiction it’s a device, often of laziness, just tell me the true story, don’t make we wade through the various opinions, oftentimes shading and not telling the truth. But oral […]

The Individualist: Digressions, Dreams & Dissertations He definitely wrote it. And no one proofread it. This surprised me. Rundgren’s a known quantity, he almost made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I figured it was finally time for his autobiography. You know, you hire a ghostwriter, tell your tale, sling a little […]

I read two books in two days. Each was unputdownable in its own way. The first was “Normal People” by Sally Rooney. She was heavily hyped in the “New Yorker” about a month ago, so I read her first book, 2017’s “Conversations With Friends,” and Daniel Glass sent me her second, “Normal People,” from Claridge’s […]