

The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson
Any book by Larson I have found to be genius – beautifully written, impelling story, methodically researched. His latest book here on...


My Life with Frank Sinatra, George Jacobs
I got to reading this after reading Bogdanovich’s book profiling some of Hollywood’s elite. This suggestion caught my surprise, the...


The Hippest Trip in America, Nelson George
My Saturday afternoons growing up was based around playing on sport teams, watching kung fu movies on WDC channel 20 and Soul Train....


Burn, Herman Pontzer
The book examines energy expediture, exercise, and diet from an evolutionary perspective, putting the modern converns of health and...


The Book of Immortality, Adam Goffner
Every single day around 175K people die worldwide. It can happen at anytime, and yet exposure to death profoundly bothers our mind...


Brat: an 80’s story, Andrew McCarthy
Like many of us GenX generation I was first introduced to Andrew through movies… St. Elmo’s Fire, Pretty in Pink, Heaven Help Us, etc.I...


Come Fly the World, Julia Cooke
My immediate reasons for picking up this book is that a Great Uncle of mine was a WW II pilot, and then later a Pam Am pilot. He even...


There Goes Gravity, Lisa Robinson
For me, Lisa is one of the founders of covering Rock and Roll journalism…. and one of the best at it. She begins with a chapter on her...


Nothin But a Good Time, T Beaujour & R. Bienstock
The new definitive book on the 1980’s hard rock explosion that I was a hug fan of. Yet another book that I didn’t want to end. They do it...


Yearbook, Seth Rogen
I didn’t know what to expect from this book outside the fact that perhaps I’d have a few laughs. Seth, if you ever in the miniscule...