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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Book Review
April 2, 2025
208

“This book was written in 1985. The author died in 2003, and this is a second edition published posthumously in 2005. I don’t know if anything was changed, but it has an introduction by the author’s son (also an NYU professor, I gather). The author doesn’t like television, and he argues for about…”

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir
Deane’s Library
Book Review
December 25, 2022
610

“Matthew Perry is lucky to be alive. In this book, he recounts his story of addiction, from alcohol as a teenager, through to pills as an adult. As the book starts, he’s in rehab, in great pain. Opiates cause constipation, and he’s so constipated that his bowel ruptures. He almost dies. He spends…”

Moonlighting: An Oral History
Deane’s Library
Book Review
February 1, 2024
1400

“Moonlighting was finally streaming on Hulu, so I started binge-watching it. It was a show that aired during my teenage years, so I have vague memories of it. It was an ‘adult’ show, and I somewhat remember my mother not approving. I saw a scattering of episodes, but never string them together….”

Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live
Deane’s Library
Book Review
February 1, 2025
842

“This is an excellent, detailed history of the first 10 years of Saturday Night Live . I was surprised it only covered the first 10 years, but then I further surprised to find that it was written in 1986. (Apparently this book was a tell-all scandal back then. I was reading the Wikipedia page for…”

You Never Know: A Memoir
Deane’s Library
Book Review
May 18, 2024
524

“I enjoyed this quite a bit, largely because it felt like it was written by Tom Selleck himself. I was nervous when I saw a co-author credit, because I was afraid it was going to be glossy and sanitized, but it’s not. In fact, it’s even a little awkward in places. It genuinely feels like it was…”