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It seems as if books on the Beatles will never end. Tony Bramwell’s Magical Mystery Tours is the latest “insider” view of the band. Of course, when a John Lennon lyric sheet is selling for $1 million, the market is evidently there. Bramwell grew up in Liverpool with Harrison, Lennon and McCartney. He was their […] Dave Zirin’s What’s My Name, Fool? explores the mixture of two of America’s favorite pastimes — politics and sports — from the left side of the political spectrum. Zirin takes insightful looks at Muhammad Alie, the man who exemplifies athletes speaking out, and one of the most memorable of all political statements in sports, John […] The Traveler has received a lot of press, largely because the author, John Twelve Hawks (a pseudonym) claims to live “off the grid.” In other words, he does as much as possible to eliminate being tracked by “the Vast Machine,” the worldwide system of computer systems and cameras that track activity in modern society and […] I know. It’s July and hot and humid. Maybe that’s why Ken Baker’s They Don’t Play Hockey in Heaven made it out of the TBR stack. As a teenager, Baker was considered an Olympic-caliber ice hockey goalie. Yet while at Colgate, an NCAA Division I hockey program, he seemed to lose his touch. A few […] It takes a bit to get used to James Frey’s memoirs, both typographically and stylistically. None of the paragraphs are indented and quotation marks are not used to delineate speech or conversation. Stylistically, Frey would probably flunk most basic composition classes. Many of his sentences are basically run-on streams of consciousness. But they all add […] |
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