I’m reading an oral history of MTV. I find these off-putting, good for bathroom reading but disappointing as books, but maybe the hit and run nature of "I Want My MTV" works because that’s just like the station, it lacked depth, it was in your face, it was the opposite of classic rock. MTV changed […]

Read this book. Even if you’ve never been to a Broadway play, even if you’re not Jewish. Because you’ll find out what it takes to make it. And the costs thereof. If you’ve got a well-adjusted family life, you’re not famous. You’ve got nothing to prove. Wendy Wasserstein’s mother married her brother-in-law when her husband […]

I’m reading a well-reviewed book that was almost impossibly hard to get into that’s got me so riveted I want to forgo my regular life and keep reading it. But now that it’s passed the halfway point it’s dawning upon me that the more I read the closer I’m getting to the end, and I […]

"Anything You Want" by Derek Sivers This book is so good, so chock full of nuggets, that I had to stop reading it and e-mail you, even though Derek says it will only take an hour to finish. Derek is you.  An outsider.  Who’s not trying to be an insider, just looking to find a […]