My father’s last book is about to be published: FINAL BOOK OF CHURCHILL TRILOGY COMING THIS FALL By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer – 4 days ago NEW YORK (AP) — The third and final volume of the late William Manchester’s beloved series on Winston Churchill is coming out this fall, nearly 25 years since…
Lunch with Linda – Love on Haight Street
Lunch with Linda – Love on Haight Street Posted by John Manchester on February 24, 2011 at 3:30pm View Blog FEBRUARY 24, 2011 2:07PM RATE: 37 Flag The Grateful Dead playing for free on Haight Street. As promised, Mrs. Muse and I shared lunch with Linda Seccaspina at Magnolia Pub on Haight Street. The food was…
Stephen King and My Dad (Part 2)
In researching his alternate history of JFK’s assassination, 11/22/63, Stephen King did his homework – reading “a stack of books and articles on the subject almost as tall as I am.” In researching his non-fiction work on the same subject, Death of a President, my father conducted over 1000 interviews, many made possible by Jackie…
Stephen King and my dad (Part 1)
I was reading Stephen King’s latest – 11/2/63, an alternate history of JFK’s assassination – when I ran into my father. I was using the Kindle app on my iPad, so I can’t say which page it was on, only that it was location 1071, 8% through the book. My father would have been horrified…
I Say Grapefruit, You Say Pomplamoose
THE TWILIGHT ZONE – A LOST EPISODE, “Time Machine.” The unmistakable voice of Rod Serling, “In a small town somewhere in America a man finds a used item. He can’t help himself, he has to buy it, because it’s what’s he’s always wanted – a time machine. And the price can’t be beat. But maybe…
Valentine’s Day and the In-N-Out
LUMINOUS NEWS – FOOD EDITION Fox News: “We report. You decide.” Our Motto: “We decide (where to eat.) We report. You don’t get any.” Valentine’s day at the start of a San Francisco (working) vacation with Mrs. Muse. Where to celebrate? Chez Panisse is too fancy for our taste. But there’s Eiji in the Castro,…
Eight Miles High
I was fifteen in early 1966 when I heard Dylan sing, “Something’s happening, and you don’t know what it is…” He sang with an authority and conviction that convinced me he possessed some Great Secret. I didn’t know what was happening, but wanted to find out in the worst way. I stared at Bob’s face…
Business is Terrible
“Business is Terrible” Posted by John Manchester on February 3, 2011 at 3:00pm View Blog FEBRUARY 3, 2011 10:40AM RATE: 14 Flag Via Nina H., Flikr A few years ago I decided to buy a bass. I’d never owned one, but I’d fiddled with a few. I figured bass couldn’t be too hard for a guitar player…
What Does a Music Publisher Do?
Tin Pan Alley (Photo By Ranveig) Your picture of a music publisher, if you have one at all, might be of some fat guy on tin pan alley sitting behind a desk, smoking a fat cigar, grinning a shark’s grin at the skinny songwriter sitting across with him. The kid is quaking in his boots,…
Three Christmas Readings
EDITOR’S PICK DECEMBER 17, 2010 7:51AM RATE: 37 Flag It’s coming on Christmas They’re cutting down trees They’re putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on -Joni Mitchell My father loved Christmas. From the time I was very small in the days after…
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