Round Up of Hard Rock Books
[Editor’s Note: The round up in this post was updated on October 17, 2023] Yesterday, we discussed the deluge of books related to hard rock and heavy metal. Whereas the prevailing attitude used to be that rockers don’t read, it now appears that anyone with a Marshall amp stack can get a book deal. And…
continue readingThe Onslaught of Heavy Metal Books
In 2001, in his debut book Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota Chuck Klosterman wrote “I mean, nobody literate cares about metal, right?” Obviously, Klosterman himself didn’t think that metal was unworthy of literary examination and he plowed ahead with the book that set the foundation for his successful career.…
continue readingNSSM: “The Birds for Christmas”
In honor of National Short Story Month, I’m thinking about Mark Richard’s “The Birds for Christmas.” I recently finished Richard’s new memoir House of Prayer No 2 and some of the scenes in there are clearly familiar to anyone who had read “The Birds.” My first experience with this great short story came from Mark…
continue readingNational Short Story Month Launches
I’ve been in full-time nonfiction mode recently. So what little reading I’ve been able to do has been of the factual variety. But I’ve been longing to dive back into made up worlds. And National Short Story Month provides the perfect excuse to revisit some old favorites and to hopefully discover some new voices that…
continue readingSheen’s $10 Million Book?
Various outlets picked up a where Charlie Sheen is writing a memoir that he thinks might be worth $10 million. Presumably, he is writing the text himself and there hasn’t been any word of a ghostwriter being involved. But for the sake of our discussion, let’s hypothetically assume that a co-author or ghostwriter were brought…
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