Best Food Writing 2017 presents, as the series always has, a veritable buffet of pleasurable reading for the foodie.
Da Capo Press
Music Interview: Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols — A “Lonely Boy”
Having long gotten “the short end of the stick,” Sex Pistols founding member Steve Jones decided to write his autobiography.
Book Review: “I Am Brian Wilson” — The Mystery Remains
The central mystery of the life of Brian Wilson: How did such a sweet and fragile soul create such complex and enduring music?
Book Review: The Story of The Cure — The Beatles of Goth
As confessions of rock decadence go, Lol Tolhust’s are fairly tame stuff.
Book Review: “Digging Up Mother” — Bizarro Family Values
Digging Up Mother: A Love Story is Doug Stanhope’s disarmingly funny, unexpectedly sweet memoir.
Book Review: “The Haunted Life” — Learning About What it Took to Become Jack Kerouac
“The Haunted Life” is little more than an example of the staggering amount of work it takes for a writer to find his voice, a testament to the years of toil Kerouac put in before forging a style all his own.