Ken Kurson

Book and Film Globe Podcasts Podcasts

Dark Word #024: Ramsey Campbell

March 6, 2023March 9, 2023 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Ramsey Campbell

Liverpudlian cooks up a career’s worth of terror lit

Business NON-FICTION

Our Indie Bookstore, Like All Indie Bookstores, Is a Force for Good

November 28, 2022February 4, 2023 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Old Florida Book Shop, Rock and Roll Globe, Sea of Reeds, The Book House, Virginia Woolf

On Cyber Monday, remember that if you want quirky bespoke stores to exist, you need to support them

Wenner

Memoir NON-FICTION

Jann Wenner and the World He Made

October 4, 2022February 6, 2023 Ken Kurson 1 Comment Annie Leibovitz, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Greil Marcus, Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner, Jon Landau, Mick Jagger, Ralph Gleason, Rolling Stone, The Rolling Stones, Tom Wolfe

Publisher’s memoir reveals a private, ambitious guy at the center of everything awesome

The Last Supper, Reinvented as a Musical, Shoots for Broadway

August 5, 2022February 5, 2023 Ken Kurson 2 Comments Charlotte d’Amboise, Howard Kagan, Jeff Thomson, Jeremy Desmond, Lorin Latarro, Mark Evans, Megan Kane, Sheryl Kaller, The Last Supper

Timely, entertaining show about divided politics fails to even the score

‘Meltdown’ Is the Best Podcast of the Year

May 31, 2022June 3, 2022 Ken Kurson 1 Comment (SIGTARP), Apple+, Audible, Bernie Sanders, Brad Miller, Brown-Kaufman amendment, Daniel Sparks, David Sirota, Dianne Feinstein, Elise Bean, financial crisis, Goldman Sachs, Google, Lisa Epstein, Matt Taibbi, Meltdown, Neil Barofsky, President Obama, Rick Santelli, Sen. Carl Levin, Senator Warren, Spotify, Ted Rall, Tim Geithner

Lefty take on 2008 financial crisis powerfully depicts how not punishing the bankers was the point

NON-FICTION True Crime

The Ultimate Ponzi: The Scott Rothstein Story

February 28, 2022February 28, 2023 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Ponzi scheme, Scott Rothstein

Book about South Florida fraudster skewers its subject and memorably portrays its milieu

Nerd Love with a British Accent

November 5, 2021November 5, 2021 Ken Kurson 1 Comment Anna-Elizabeth Shakespeare, Celiya Koster-Brown, Emily Jayne, Hillary Shakespeare, Jack Boal, James Calloway, Scarlett Marshall, Soundtrack to Sixteen

‘Soundtrack to Sixteen’ wrings fresh life from a familiar trope

Business NON-FICTION

Hello, Neumann

December 2, 2020March 15, 2022 Ken Kurson 1 Comment Adam Neumann, Benchmark, Billion Dollar Loser, Bruce Dunlevie, Charles Duhigg, DoorDash, Jack Ma, Jamal Khashoggi, Jared Kushner, Jennifer Berrent, Masayoshi Son, Miguel McKelvey, Rebekah Neumann, Reeves Wiedeman, Softbank, Stephen Hadley, venture capital, WeWork

Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork by Reeves Wiedeman

Mark Lanegan

Memoir NON-FICTION

Mark Lanegan’s Beautifully Sad Memoir of Drugs and Despair

September 3, 2020August 18, 2022 Ken Kurson 2 Comments Alice in Chains, Bruce Pavitt, Courtney Love, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Jerry Cantrell, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Lee Connor, Liam Gallagher, memoir, Screaming Trees, Sing Backwards and Weep, Sub Pop, The Gun Club, Van Connor, Vocalist Mark Lanegan

Screaming Trees vocalist sings a powerful story

CREATORS Directors Memoir NON-FICTION Writers

Woody Allen’s Brilliant New Memoir is Actually Two Different Books

June 4, 2020August 18, 2022 Ken Kurson 11 Comments Alan Dershowitz, Alec Baldwin, Apropos Of Nothing, Diane Keaton, Greta Gerwig, Mia Farrow, Mira Sorvino, New York Times, Nick Apollo Forte, Ronan Farrow, Scarlett Johansson, Soon-Yi Previn, Woody Allen

A witty, self-deprecating showbiz reminiscence and a detailed, persuasive self-defense

Memoir Remembrance Writers

Writers React to the Death of Memoirist Elizabeth Wurtzel from Cancer at Age 52

January 7, 2020January 7, 2020 Ken Kurson 0 Comments BRCA gene, breast cancer, depression, double mastectomy, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Fight House: Rivalries in the White House, Jim Freed, Joe Biden, John Podhoretz, Julian Castro, Lisa DePaulo, Los Angeles Magazine, Maer Roshan, mikal gilmore, Now Again, Prozac Nation, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Susan Shapiro, Tevi Troy, The Byline Bible

‘Prozac Nation’ helped birth a wave of self-examination

Everything is combustible cover

Memoir NON-FICTION

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

January 22, 2019March 15, 2022 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

Actors Directors Remembrance

Penny Marshall, 1943-2018

December 18, 2018March 15, 2022 Ken Kurson 3 Comments 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

Father Ted

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)

Leonora Miano

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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