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First novel by one of my favorite singers for decades. Fingers crossed. Walk Like an Egyptian to get your copy. Just out April 23.

As a publicist by trade, I was fascinated by this "classic" of the field. Meet the business-friendly, New Deal hating ad man of yesteryear. He dreams of selling as much a possible to a post-war world that needs supermarkets and suburbs. One insight that Young has is that everyone was feeling beaten down by the modern world and all the machines in their lives. A great ad campaign would give us the feeling that buying this product give one memories of a simpler time, before factories and war. That kind of campaign still works in our computer hellscape 2023. Calgon, take me away!

Collection of essays that dive into how we got here, what the current science says, and what can be done to address the climate emergency. Nice work, Greta!

The Netflix version is very loyal to the novel. How timely as toxic trains crash across the USA.

As a middle-aged man, the character of Lacey appealed to me, as it obviously did to middle-aged Steve Martin. It is fun to be a fly on the wall as the rich and filthy rich buy and sell the most expensive paintings in the world in late 1990s NYC and Europe. But the endless shenanigans of this entirely self-involved group of snobs get rocked by world events and nothing is the same after that.

John Banion the firebrand right wing TV host asks the president a nasty question during a press conference. The next day, while golfing, he is abducted by aliens and "probed." His reaction is to convince the nation that many of us are being abducted. But the truth is even weirder. The Million-Alien March is 1/6 imagined two decades before it happened. Brilliant read. Should be a movie.

The way Patrick Carr transcribed Johnny's stories feels like you are sitting on the back porch chatting with Johnny. So many sins acknowledged, so much gratitude for forgiveness and that we all still loved him at the end of his life.