READING AND WRITING AND LISTENING

Reviews

When I bathe and wear my clean clothes, I’m tolerable.

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“The Act We’ve Known for All These Years” is a review of Paul McCartney: A Life, by Philip Norman, written for the Boston Globe.

“The Alternate Take” is a review of The Joke’s Over by Ralph Steadman, written for the Tampa Bay Times.

“Autobiography of a Rebel” is a review of Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson, written for the Orlando Sentinel.

“Bootleg Bob Remains Essential” is a review of Tell Tale Signs by Bob Dylan, written for Creative Loafing.

“The Children’s Crusade”  is a review of The Children by David Halberstam which appeared originally in the Orlando Sentinel.

“Clarity of Sound and Mind” is a review of Brian Wilson’s Smile, from the Tampa Bay Times, 2004.

“Concentrated Evil” is a review of Dave Cullen’s Columbine which appeared in Creative Loafing.

“Duane’s Denouement” is a review of When the Light Goes by Larry McMurtry, from the Tampa Bay Times.

“Get on the Good Book!” is a review of The Hardest Working Man by James Sullivan, from the Tampa Bay Times.

“Go Forth and Kicketh Some Ass” is a review of Kick Ass by Carl Hiaasen, from the Orlando Sentinel.

“Heir Apparent to a Knight Errant” is a review of The Quick Adios (Times Six) by Tom Corcoran, from Creative Loafing.

“Here’s Danny!” is a review of Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, from Creative Loafing.

“The Hippie Poet” is a review of Jubilee Hitchhiker by William Hjorstberg, from Creative Loafing.

“His Back Pages” is a review of Bob Dylan’s output in the first decade of the 21st Century, written for The Satellite magazine.

“His Bootheels Were A-wanderin'” is a review of Down the Highway by Howard Sounes, from the Orlando Sentinel.

“Hitting a Personal Note” is a review of Sing Me Back Home by Dana Jennings, from the Tampa Bay Times.

“Hot Donuts Now” is a review of Glazed America by Paul Mullins, for The Satellite magazine.

“Hot, Sexy and Dead” is a review of The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars by Jeffrey Simmonds, for Creative Loafing.

Pontificating, no doubt, in my Boston University office.

“Humor in the Sacred and the Profane” is a review of Driving on the Rim by Thomas McGuane, from the Boston Globe.

“If We Knew a Rich Man” is a review of The Rich Man’s Table by Scott Spencer, for the Orlando Sentinel.

“The Importance of Being Hunter” is a review of Fear and Loathing in America by Hunter S. Thompson, from the Orlando Sentinel.

“Let us Now Praise Famous Stooges” is a review of The Three Stooges Scrapbook by Jeff Lenberg, from Creative Loafing.

“License to Rant”  is a review of Hey Rube by Hunter S. Thompson for the Tampa Bay Times, 2004.

“Life on the Death Beat” is a review of The Dead Beat by Marilyn Johnson, from The Satellite magazine.

“Long Time Ago, When They Was Fab” is a review of The Beatles Anthology by the Beatles, written for the Orlando Sentinel.

“Mama Don’t Worry Now, Teddy Boy’s Here” is a review of Edward Kennedy: An Intimate Biography by Burton Hersh.

“Man Crush” is a review of Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero by Chris Matthews, from the Boston Globe.

“Man on the Rum” is a review of the film of The Rum Diary, starring Johnny Depp, for The Daily Beast.

“Mystery with a Mango Sour Chaser” is a review of Liz Balmaseda’s Sweet Mary for Creative Loafing.

“The News in Black and White” is a review of The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, from the Tampa Bay Times.

“The Old New Hemingway” is a review of Gallatin Canyon by Thomas McGuane, from the Tampa BayTimes.”

“Off to See the Wizard Again” is a review of The Making of The Wizard of Oz by Aljean Harmetz, from Creative Loafing.

“A Primer for the Body” is a review of How to Make Love to Adrian Colesberry by Adrian Colesberry, from Creative Loafing.

Pontificating at the Times Festival of Reading, November 11, 2017, at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Florida.

“Rape and the Justice System” is a review of Missoula by Jon Krakauer, from the Boston Globe.

“Read the Beatles” is a review of The Beatles Anthology by The Beatles, from the Orlando Sentinel, October 2000.

“Rock, From the Inside” is a review of memoirs by Fito de la Perra of Canned Heat and Chuck Leavell of the Allman Brothers Band and the Rolling Stones, for the Satellite magazine.

“Shooting the Moon” is a review of The Dark Side of the Moon by Gerard DeGroot, from the Tampa Bay Times, 2006.

“Southern Man” is a review of The Candy Men by Nile Southern, from the Tampa Bay Times.

“A Space Filled with Moving” is a review of American Nomads by Richard Grant, from the Tampa Bay Times.

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Capote” is a review of Summer Crossing by Truman Capote, written for the Orlando Sentinel.

“There Used to be Giants” is a review of Titans by Al Satterwhite, from Creative Loafing.

“To Live and Die in Dixie” is a review of Dixie by Curtis Wilkie, from The Satellite magazine, 2001.

“Treasure Hunt” is a review of Master Thieves by Stephen Kurkjian, from the Boston Globe.

“Walking With Purpose” is a review of Grandma Gatewood’s Walk by Ben Montgomery, from the Tampa Bay Times.

“Watching the Animals at the Zoo” is a review of Tom French’s Zoo Story for Creative Loafing.

“What the Soldier Saw” is a review of The Good Soldiers by David Finkel for Creative Loafing.

“What’s Behind the Crazy” is a review of Oh! Florida! by Craig Pittman, for the Tampa Bay Times.

“When Harry Met Mickey” is a review of The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly, from Creative Loafing.

“When Hijinks Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” is a review of Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen, written for the Orlando Sentinel.

“Where Have You Been My Blue-Eyed Son” is a review of Paul Newman: A Life by Shawn Levy, from Creative Loafing.

“Wolfe Man in the Tropics” is a review of Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe, from the Boston Globe.

“Woodstock Without Tears” is a review of Back to the Garden by Pete Fornatale, from the Tampa Bay Times.

“You Bet Your Sweet Bippy” is a review of From Beautiful Downtown Burbank by Ken Erickson, from Journalism History.