Kudos & Flowers

Music is the presiding factor in Graham Nash’s life.   He opens his book, Wild Tales with this line:   It always comes down to the music...

Happy – This is something Shirley Jones seems to have remained for her entire life, even while married to the scoundrel (I use that word ...

  Bastards are always the best survivors. - On why Frank Sinatra would outlive her.   I could never take Surrealism seriously af...

35 years ago on January 14, the Sex Pistols played their final gig as the band we remember,  that lineup with Sid Vicious.  It's ironic ...

The title grabbed me and then I heard Anna Quindlen on NPR talking about her memoir.   I related to her feelings on the Catholic Church’...

Pete Townshend just released his memoir Who Am I, which I will have to read.  Roland Kelt's blog in the New Yorker delves into Townshend...

“When I do an interview and the writer apologized for not knowing anything about Soul Coughing other than Circles, I thank her or him exub...

A tip off to the direction of Shawn Colvin’s memoir diamond in the rough is revealed in an Anne Sexton quote that precedes the beginning ...

Stephen Colbert was a guest on The View today.  He was promoting the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear .   Stephen questioned Barbara Wa...

When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man is the perfect title for this memoir from Jerr...

When I was working in management, I was in awe of two of artists I worked with. I would accompany them on a press day, which essentially mea...

Rosanne Cash is an artistic treasure.  She's an accomplished singer/songwriter. She has tackled the book publishing world with a few tit...