One of my favorite New Year’s traditions is moving the list of books I read in the past year onto the Booknerd page, which has lists for the past eleven or twelve years. I just…
Posts tagged 2013 Books
More Addiction Memoir Than Music Memoir
My rosy feelings for Belinda Carlisle’s memoir Lips Unsealed come from equal parts twenty-five-year-old nostalgia and love for Christa’s review of the book. Her review is one of my favorite pieces ever published on MN…
The Saddest Issue of Tiger Beat
If Rob Lowe’s memoir is the biggest, best issue of Tiger Beat ever, then Gavin Edward’s Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind is the saddest. River Phoenix…
Otters & Robots & Losing Sleep
The thing I love about reading books by Kurtis Scaletta (who you should know is a friend of mine), is that they zap me back in time to when it seemed my only responsibility and…
The Ocean at the End of the ZZZzzz
Warning: I’m going to state a personal preference in a minute. Please try not to bunch yer undies. I know we live in a time where having a personal preference has morphed into some sort…