
My personal Substack - Here's a collection of some of the writing I've been doing since May of 2024. Author of nine books, a tenth on Bruce Springsteen in the works. I write about Literature, Music, Sports, Politics, History, welcome your responses!
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I don’t understand. There are things in life, one assumes, you grow out of. As a kid, I had an old hockey stick that I used to pretend was Davy Crockett’s famous flintlock rifle “Old Betsy.” But I grew out of it.
I used to have a black Te...
Whether it’s karma, fate, destiny or just a matter of taste, our greatest writers have always been reticent to explain their magic. Or to tell us what strings they were pulling and why they were yanking them.
“Here’s why I had this charac...
So let me pause and nod as I begin Substack Post #700, which is unfolding before you right now. Seven hundred! Wow! That’s a lot of posts, isn’t it? Seven hundred posts in 804 days! Where did they all come from? What did I stumble into, sit...
Though there is no byline, research tells us that it was writer James P. Dawson who actually wrote the story for Page One of the New York Times. We don’t know who wrote the outsized headline that ran in the top right corner of the Times’ fr...
He’s on the move. Still. A well-received show in Boston, the other night. Then he headed up to Gilford, New Hampshire, a little bit north of my old stomping grounds, bringing back a song from “Time Out Of Mind” that he should have been play...
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