Tangled Up in Tunes: Ballad of a Dylahead will be released in January. Here's the latest endorsement my book has received:
Howard Weiner's new book is a smart, funny, informative, and ultimately touching
accomplishment, a classic American bildungsroman with Jerry Garcia and Bob
Dylan as the surprising emotional engines. For those of us who grew up far from
the capitals of culture, popular music performed the same education in
sensibilty that high culture once did for an earlier, perhaps more aristocratic
generation. That history, at once public and personal, is a story rarely told --
and Weiner tells it boldly and resonantly here.
-- Robert Polito, author
of Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson and Hollywood & God
Thursday, November 17, 2011
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