The Witches, Salem 1692 by Stacy Schiff
The Witches, Salem 1692 by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown and Company) It is a thick historic read that Stacy Schiff offers us in her book The Witches, Salem 1692. If you think you know all about this period of history, have the skinny on the rumors and historic accounting, know full well what happened to a bunch of women (and men) way back in the More...
Where The Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger And The World That Made Him
Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him by T. J. English (William Morrow) One of the most notorious American criminals of the modern age, Whitey Bulger, is the subject of T. J. More...
Live At The Fillmore East & West
Live at the Fillmore East and West: Getting Backstage and Personal with Rock’s Greatest Legends By John Glatt (Lyons Press) John Glatt’s wonderful new hardcover Live At The Fillmore East & West spins a tale More...
The Making Of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
The Making Of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ By Piers Bizony (Taschen) The brand new behind-the-scenes hardcover from Taschen, The Making Of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ tells More...
Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out The Beatles, Made The Stones, and Transformed Rock and Roll
Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out The Beatles, Made The Stones, and Transformed Rock and Roll By Fred Goodman (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) If you don’t know who Allen Klein is, you are going to More...
M.C. Beaton: Death Of A Liar
Death Of A Liar By M.C. Beaton (Grand Central Publishing) Fun, imaginative and wholly engaging. When was the last time you could use these words to describe a book? Death Of A Liar by M.C. Beaton, yet another More...
John Cleese: So Anyway…
So, Anyway… By John Cleese (Crown Archetype) So Anyway… is the new, first-ever John Cleese memoir. It is a wonderful fast page-turning hard cover, covering Cleese’s childhood (and his odd relationship More...
Wounds to Bind: A Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution
Wounds to Bind: A Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution By Jerry Burgan and Sylvia Tyson (Rowman & Littlefield) I’m not sure I have enjoyed a personal memoir more than Wounds to Bind: A Memoir of the Folk-Rock More...
The Band: Pioneers of American Music
The Band: Pioneers of American Music By Craig Harris (Rowman & Littlefield) If you want to know all there is about The Band, read The Band: Pioneers of American Music by Craig Harris. From the beginning of this More...
Film Noir: 100 All-Time Favorites
Film Noir: 100 All-Time Favorites Edited by Paul Duncan (Taschen) Opening with the wonderful essay “Notes On Film Noir” by Paul Schrader and taking the reader through the entire spectrum of noir films, Tashen’s More...
