So what’s so important about 1973 to rock? A lot of bands and cultural icons began that year. From the first Dick Clark New Year’s Rockin’ Eve to the first albums of diverse acts like Bruce Springsteen, Queen, the New York Dolls, and Aerosmith, music had plenty to celebrate whileContinue Reading
Comic book and Marvel movie fans rejoice! A definitive biography of Stan Lee, particularly his Marvel years, is here! Stan Lee, creator of iconic superheroes like Spider-Man and Iron Man truly led A Marvelous Life. Beginning with his poverty-stricken childhood and ending with the lawsuits for elder abuse still waitingContinue Reading
Once Upon a Time in France tells the, so unbelievably it must be true, story of Romanian Jew Joseph Joanovici. After immigrating to France in the 1920s, scrap metal makes him rich. When World War II begins, he slowly starts supplying the Nazis with metal after they occupy France. HeContinue Reading
Bill Murray’s movie career is explored along with various artists’ interpretations of him in numerous media in the Art of Being Bill. Bill’s life (in movies at least) is broken up chronologically into eight chapters: The Jester The Thinker The Intense The Charming The Exasperated The Melancholy The Complex TheContinue Reading
Families are messed up. Even, maybe especially, famous ones. The author of All the Answers is Michael Kupperman. He is a famous, Eisner Award-winning artist and writer. However, he continues to be haunted by his father’s aloof attitude toward him throughout his childhood and adolescence. The author believes that hisContinue Reading
Meticulously researched biography about the world’s most famous conjoined twins. Chang and Eng were joined by a small tube of skin and shared a liver. Today they would have been separated soon after birth. In the early 1800s, they were purchased from their Chinese/Siamese mother for $500. They were shippedContinue Reading
Like Beetlejuice’s The Handbook for the Living and the Dead, “this thing reads like stereo instructions”. But if the stereo instructions show Prince behind the scenes, it is worth spending a bit of time reading inconsequential details. Prince and the Purple Rain Era Sessions: 1983 and 1984 describes what PrinceContinue Reading
Every Family has a Story. The author writes the history of her family from the 1890s until 1925 based on family and historical records and pictures. It begins with a drought in Nebraska forcing an entire farming family including their grown children to move to free land in Oklahoma. SomeContinue Reading