January 23, 2023
David Loehr’s That’s How Strong My Love Is is both a memoir and hagiography of growing up loving rock music and, later, the 1950s movie star James Dean.
The author grew up in western Massachusetts in the early 1960s, where he got hooked on AM Top 40 radio. By decade’s end, he was living in […]
November 29, 2022
Anthropologist James F. Hopgood draws on the tools of his trade for this study of James Dean fans, asking why a movie star who completed only three films before dying at age 24 in 1955 has drawn and retained such a loyal following.
Hopgood places the bulk of his attention on the town of Fairmount, […]
August 8, 2022
B. John Burns takes readers on a joyful nostalgia trip to 1976 with this account of his memorable year in a struggling Omaha, Nebraska-based band. This memoir conveys a transformational period in his young life, when gas was cheap and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours was in heavy rotation on the car’s AM radio.
Burns’s Top 40 […]
January 17, 2022
In Dem Haoles, author Brian M. Gilpin looks at how haoles (non-native Hawaiians—usually Caucasians) use media images to rationalize their discriminatory behavior.
Gilpin engagingly draws from short stories, travelogues, novels, television programs and movies to delineate six haole archetypes: “gods, demigods, saints, seekers, rogues and vagabonds.” Throughout the book, he examines how various media portray […]
December 20, 2021
Publishing professional Kim Staflund has produced several dozen short ebooks on making it as an author, covering subjects as diverse as publishing poetry and appropriately pricing an ebook. Her fourth full-length offering aims to outline all aspects of producing a book, from idea to marketing.
Staflund begins by examining the supply chain in general and […]
April 12, 2021
Near the conclusion of GAWKER SLAYER, author Charles Harder reveals that “I always wanted to write a book like this one.” The result is a celebration of his legal work on behalf of A-list celebrities, including the former president and Melania Trump, plus chapters about his early life, personal heroes and plans for changing the […]
October 15, 2019
William O’Shaughnessy, owner and talk show host at community radio station WVOX-AM, has played an oversized role in New York politics and society for more than 50 years. From his perch outside New York City, the distinguished O’Shaughnessy has regularly hosted political big-wigs like Nelson Rockefeller, hobnobbed with neighbors like Jonathan Bush (brother and […]
September 13, 2019
Author F.M. Kail examines the ever-fascinating topic of the underdog in his interesting compendium, Heroes with Humble Beginnings.
Kail focuses on 21 famous athletes, actors and presidents, positing that in overcoming challenging childhoods, they developed the character that took them to the top of their fields.
Baseball great Ted Williams, for example, […]
June 17, 2019
There was a time when ad exec Howie Cohen’s words were spoken in almost every home and office across America. His fascinating, humorous memoir is sure to bring back memories for many as he recounts a remarkable career in advertising.
Cohen is probably best known as the advertising executive—advertising genius, really—who created two of the […]
March 31, 2019
Bill Poje’s The Byzantine Pineapple (Part I) with Corporation X is comprised of two disparate books: one political and the other about his book and film projects.
In the first (Byzantine Pineapple), Poje, who holds an MBA, outlines what he believes is wrong with America’s “socioeconomic legal political” system. He criticizes the norm of political […]