Tom Petty died three weeks ago, and I’m still not used to a world without him. I interviewed him just once (for the first Mudcrutch album, about ten years ago)–he was gracious and professional and insisted that I stick around to listen to rehearsal rather than be ejected into the afternoon rush hour of the […]
posted 24 October 2017 in Outside. no comments yet
The Tao of Bill Murray is coming out in paperback, which I guess makes me a paperback writer. Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book? It’s on sale October 24th and has this spiffy new cover, plus an appendix on Bill’s remarkable 2017, when the Cubs won the World Series and he went […]
posted 2 October 2017 in Buy My Stuff. no comments yet
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing the brilliant author Francis Spufford for the Barnes & Noble Review. I suggest you go read our conversation, but I suggest even more strongly that you read his books, including Red Plenty (a brilliant fictionalized history of the Soviet Union) and the new Golden Hill (a exhilarating novel […]
posted 29 June 2017 in Articles. no comments yet
Photographed at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 1, 2017. Radiohead are performing “Daydreaming”–the first song of an amazing concert.
posted 14 April 2017 in Photos. no comments yet
Achtung! I don’t think this website gets a lot of German traffic, but I am nevertheless delighted to announce that the German edition of The Tao of Bill Murray, titled Meeting Bill Murray for the book readers of Deutschland, will be on sale on April 24th. My thanks to the good people of Bastei Entertainment […]
posted 30 March 2017 in Buy My Stuff. no comments yet
If you are in or near Charlotte, North Carolina, and if you would like to hear me reading from The Tao of Bill Murray, answering questions (about Bill or anything else that interests you), and signing books (my own, presumably), then you are in luck–I will be appearing at CPCC for the Sensoria festival on […]
posted 30 March 2017 in Buy My Stuff. no comments yet
(And the beat goes on. New to the countdown? Catch up here.) A beautiful woman walks down a city street: tight black dress, bangles on her wrists, long kinky hair, flawless mocha skin, high heels. This is model Tatiana Thumbzen. A funky guitar riff plays in the background (the song “Hot” by Roy Ayers). The […]
posted 20 March 2017 in 1988. 6 comments
One pleasant aspect of being a fan of the late great novelist Donald Westlake is that he was so prolific—both under his own name and the hardboiled pseudonym Richard Stark—is that it feels like I’ll never run out of his books. Yesterday I grabbed a random paperback off the shelf: 1972’s Cops and Robbers, about […]
posted 11 January 2017 in Excerpts. no comments yet
Over at BoingBoing, I wrote an essay about the most excellent illustrator of The Tao of Bill Murray, R. Sikoryak. Over here, I’m happy to post one of my favorite pieces of art from the book, where Bill Murray worms his way into the world of M.C. Escher.
posted 8 December 2016 in Links. no comments yet
If you were planning on coming to the Mint Museum tonight for their “Wine on Wednesday,” it’s been cancelled due to the expectation of widespread (and hopefully peaceful) protest in uptown Charlotte tonight. We’ll be rescheduling–I’ll keep you posted.
posted 30 November 2016 in Buy My Stuff. no comments yet
