Category: Non-Fiction

The Dirt: Filthy

Let me start with two things: 1) I’m glad I don’t have to code this post, because the amount of ö and ü I’d have to type in this band’s name would drive me to an insane life of unabashed hedonism, and 2) I wish I had to code this post. But seriously folks, although…

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Blind Faith: A Murder That Didn’t Add Up

Back when Rolling Stone was in magazine form, c. 1988, I bought a copy because it had Guns N? Roses on the cover. Oh God, I loved them. But aside from interviews with Slash and Axl and probably talk of that ?November Rain? song, there was also an excerpt of an upcoming book “Blind Faith”…

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Olivia Newton-John Is Not Abe Vigoda

2019 has already seen the deaths of Super Dave Osborne, Mean Gene Okerlund, and Neil Young’s ex-wife. But not only is Aussie singer-actress Olivia Newton-John not dying, she’s also releasing her memoir in the U.S. this March. According to Publishers Weekly? “Don?t Stop Believin,?” published by Gallery Books, “will feature a new afterword by the…

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The healthy glow of those Radium Girls

At least, that’s how those in charge framed things in the plants that were running in Orange, NJ and Ottawa, IL. ?In her book?The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women, Kate Moore paints us a picture – a very human one – of what went on for these women.

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#tbt The Book of Lists

I love trivia. Trivial Pursuit is the only board game I’ll play. Probably because it?s the only one I?m good at. (Well, that and Stratego.) I get very competitive?for me, trivial knowledge is personal. I knew that Craig Claiborne was The New York Times? restaurant critic when the first Genus edition of Trivial Pursuit came…

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