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A Boomer and His Books

Kevin Mims

The pop culture that Baby Boomers like myself were raised on.

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THE FOLLETT OF MY YOUTH

As you know, I have lately been returning to the early books of Ken Follett’s career, the five bestsellers he published between 1978 and 1985 (Eye of the Needle, Triple, The Key to Rebecca, The Man From St. Petersburg, and Lie Down With Lio...

24 hours ago

MONSTERS IN THE ARCHIVES

NOTE: A shorter version of this review appeared in Quillette a few months ago.

Back in the 1960s and 70s you could still find serious music lovers who claimed that the Beatles were a passing fad and that their music would largely be forgot...

3 days ago
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FROM WWII TO Y2K: 100 (OR SO) ESSENTIAL POPULAR NOVELS OF THE BABY-BOOM ERA

A few months back, I mentioned in passing here that I am putting together a list of 100 (or so) essential popular novels published between World War II and The end of the twentieth century. My plan was to write brief essays explaining what...

5 days ago
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AN ALL-PURPOSE QUOTE FOR CARELESS PUNDITS

Look, I realize that cultural pundits with elite backgrounds tend to be extremely tribalistic and are essentially required to (over)praise the same mediocre books and writers as the rest of their tribe, but the way they all revere The Great...

10 days ago
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KEN FOLLETT MEETS THE MAD MEN ERA

For my Ken Follett reading (and re-reading) project, I wanted to start by re-reading the first five of his megabestsellers (Eye of the Needle, Triple, The Key to Rebecca, The Man From St. Petersburg, and Lie Down With Lions) and also by rea...

11 days ago

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    Kevin Mims was born on the exact same day as Madonna. He writes mainly about the pop culture of the Baby Boom generation.

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