Ken Kurson

Saturday, November 28, 2020

Mark Lanegan’s Beautifully Sad Memoir of Drugs and Despair

September 3, 2020September 16, 2020 Ken Kurson 1 Comment 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, 2020June 24, 2020 Ken Kurson 7 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

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

Actors Directors Remembrance

Penny Marshall, 1943-2018

December 18, 2018October 7, 2019 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

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)

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

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

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

Actors CREATORS FILM

Martin Landau Indicts Hollywood for Crimes and Misdemeanors

February 16, 2016July 17, 2018 Ken Kurson 5 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’

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

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

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

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

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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