(David Denby on Norman Mailer’s wartime experiences)

Hey, folks. Just a quick periodic round-up of stuff I’ve gotten up to of late…I guess I could use Linktree but I’m still paying for hosting for TN, so: …

Laurence Leamer’s overwritten Palm Beach chronicle isn’t great…except the parts dragging the Commander In Cheeto.

A carefully researched and well-written overview of “the music of freedom” runs out of gas halfway there.

Help! I love love true crime, but ever since I had a baby I get weepy when I hear about murder (especially kids or their parents dying).

Would love suggestions on new reading material. I love British mysteries, especially if they are a series.

So, there’s a short story I read in high school that I remember very little about, except for a few key details:

This is a book my mother used to read with me back in the day (late ’70s, early ’80s), and we used to laugh and laugh. Somewhere along the way I lost the book. I …

Mark Blankenship joins me to talk about Mark Yarm’s oral history of grunge.

Managers, Watchmen, and more stuff I’m thinking about.

It’s hard to describe what I found so appealing about Jerre Mangione’s The Dream And The Deal.