Author: Ken Kurson

Memoir NON-FICTION 

Richard Lloyd’s Memoir: a Thing of Real Beauty and Light

January 22, 2019August 12, 2019 Ken Kurson 0 Comments CBGBs, Everything is combustible, Hilly Kristal, Jimi Hendrix, Richard Lloyd, Television

‘Everything Is Combustible’ Puts You Inside the Unique Mind of a Musical Master

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Actors Directors Remembrance 

Penny Marshall, 1943-2018

December 18, 2018April 21, 2019 Ken Kurson 1 Comment A League of Their Own, Beverly Donofrio, Fran Lebowitz, Laverne DeFazio, Lorraine Bracco, Penny Marshall, Riding in Cars With Boys, Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Ron Perelman, The Odd Couple, Tom Hanks

Director to Some, Laverne to Many, Beloved by All

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DOCUMENTARY FILM 

New Doc ‘Hesburgh’ Offers Searing Look at a Great American Leader

November 12, 2018November 23, 2018 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Ann Landers, Bobby Kennedy, Christine O'Malley, Dr. Martin Luther King, Father Ted, J. Edgar Hoover, Jerry Barca, John Ehrlichman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Nick Andert, Patrick Creadon, Pope Paul VI, Richard Nixon, Robert Sam Anson, Theodore Hesburgh, University of Notre Dame, Vietnamese National Liberation Front, William Neal

Father Ted Battled for Civil Rights, Built Notre Dame, Advised Presidents (and Was a Decent Human Being)

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CREATORS Memoir Writers 

Literary Downtown

September 17, 2018September 17, 2018 Ken Kurson 1 Comment Algiers, Black Panthers, Britney Wilson, Cory Nakasue, Elaine Makhtefi, Eldridge Cleaver, Frantz Fanon, Gila Walker, Housing Works, Jason Diamond, Jen Doll, Leonora Miano, McNally Jackson, Mokhtar Mokhtefi, Pilot Viruet, Ryan Chapman, Sari Botton, Season of the Shadow, St. Marks Bookshop, Stokely Carmichael, Talia Lavin, Timothy Leary, Will Hermes

You just have to look a little harder, walk a little farther

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Remembrance 

Remembering Brad Grey

May 15, 2017December 18, 2018 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Bob Odenkirk, Brad Grey, Brad Pitt, Brillstein Grey, Harvey Weinstein, Jennifer Aniston, Jon Liebman, Paramount, Rudy Giuliani, The Larry Sanders Show, The Sopranos, Tina Brown, Tony Carbonetti, World War Z

Paramount head and talent manager singer was 59

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Music NON-FICTION 

A Stones Book for Every Kind of Stones Fan

May 1, 2017July 21, 2018 Ken Kurson 1 Comment Bill Janovitz, Bill Wyman, Brian Jones, Buffalo Tom, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Muddy Waters, Rocks Off: 50 Tracks That Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones, Rolling Stones, St. Martin’s Press

Rocks Off: 50 Tracks That Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones by Bill Janovitz

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Actors CREATORS FILM 

Martin Landau Indicts Hollywood for Crimes and Misdemeanors

February 16, 2016July 17, 2018 Ken Kurson 4 Comments Atom Eyoyan, Columbo, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Ed Wood, Ellen Burstyn, Holocaust, Jerry Orbach, Lovely, Martin Landau, Mission Impossible, Remember, Rounders, Simon Wiesenthal, Still, Woody Allen

At 87, master actor kills it in brilliant ‘Remember’

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Audiobooks FICTION 

The Apex of My Audiobook Addiction

December 4, 2013July 18, 2018 Ken Kurson 0 Comments A Man on Tape, I am Charlotte Simmons, Jill Krementz, Michael Prichard, Tom Wolfe

Michael Prichard narrates Tom Wolfe’s A Man In Full like a boss

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Actors CREATORS Directors FILM 

Robert Redford Premieres The Company You Keep

April 2, 2013July 19, 2018 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Brit Marling, Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Sony Pictures, Stanley Tucci, Zosia Mamet

Radical chic in full bloom at MOMA

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Music NON-FICTION 

The Definitive Biography of The Smiths

December 29, 2012July 21, 2018 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Johnny Marr, Morrissey, Sandie Shaw, Tony Fletcher

A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT By Tony Fletcher

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NON-FICTION True Crime 

Unstable Neighbor Ruins Couples’ Lives

December 11, 2012August 22, 2018 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Michelle Gesse, Steven gesse

Bogus Allegations by Michelle Lombardi Gesse

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NON-FICTION 

Politics: Show Business for Ugly People

July 24, 2012July 29, 2018 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Broadway Books, Charlie Crist, Chris Cillizza, Colin Powell, Richard Ben Cramer, Rudy Giuliani, The Gospel According to the Fix

The Gospel According to the Fix by Chris Cillizza

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Uncategorized 

The Best Political Ad Ever

November 5, 2011July 17, 2018 Ken Kurson 0 Comments

LBJ, Barry Goldwater, and the Ad That Changed American Politics by Robert Mann

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Music NON-FICTION 

Seattle Sludge

September 3, 2011July 21, 2018 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Grunge, Mark Yarm, MUDHONEY, Nirvana, Seattle, Soundgarden

Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History Of Grunge by Mark Yarm

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Memoir Music NON-FICTION 

Bob Mould Fucking Rules. And So Does His Memoir.

June 25, 2011April 11, 2019 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Bob Mould, Hulk Hogan, Husker Du, Michael Azerrad

See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody

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