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.

I wondered, at a certain point in Nathaniel Philbrick’s detailed narrative of Custer’s Last Stand, why he was spending such a long time on other soldiers in another company, on another hill, trying to survive …

Robert Greenfield’s Exile On Main St. is a season in hell with thirdhand gossip.

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Let’s Ask The Readers how we’re doing!

And other fun stuff from Peter Biskind’s Down And Dirty Pictures.