The Nix: A novel This book is fantastic. The Kindle rekindled my interest in reading books. Before that I was purely a magazine guy, I needed the immediacy, the truth, books were a backwater I’d abandoned way back when. And now readers have their knickers in a twist. That’s exactly the point. These holier-than-thou supposed […]

“Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency“ This book is so depressing I almost want to tell you not to read it. But that would be a mistake. I was not going to read it, because I hate oral histories and the reviews were horrid. Then I ran into Steve Barnett who told […]

I’m reading Philip Roth. I didn’t plan to, I’m not that big a fan. I found “American Pastoral” to be tedious. But I read the reviews of the filmed version of “Indignation” and I became intrigued. I’m a sucker for boy meets goy at small college in the fifties stories, especially when the protagonist is […]

“Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice” Jim Urie recommended this book. Yes, the man who used to run Universal Distribution, the guy who was featured so prominently in the Tower Records documentary. And I didn’t expect it to be good, after all, it was released over […]