Jesse Crall🕊 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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One of David Crosby's best compositions. Apparently, he wiped the rest of The Byrds' backing vocals during production & replaced them with his own. That was a sound creative decision but didn't make his subsequent firing much of a surprise. https://t.co/gVPxCnyX86

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Shapiro took a $550,000 donation from PayPal Mafia alum Reid Hoffman & $1 million from former PayPal CEO Bill Harris. Bloomberg gave $500,000, same as billionaire insurance tycoon Thomas Hagen. Liz Warren's primary lifeline Karla Jurvetson gave $1 million. https://t.co/9VJcqDoNqb

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Jim Bouton's BALL FOUR was a really formative book when I was a kid so it's slightly unnerving to realize that I'm now older than he was when he wrote it. https://t.co/tNu0izb3mB

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I mean, there's a reason Peter Biskind's EASY RIDERS RAGING BULLS became a cultural touchstone and his Sundance/Weinstein book didn't.

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Something I think about a lot: William Goldman saying that when Carl Bernstein & Nora Ephron took a crack at the ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN script, Bernstein suddenly became catnip to the ladies. https://t.co/bkvwnlyctW

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Nothing exemplifies the music industry's shift from grass to coke better than Graham Nash writing a sequel to "Our House" called "To the Last Whale" about how his now-ex Joni Mitchell's domestic bliss required the genocide of the whales. https://t.co/DORwx6TgmH

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Oliver Stone's JFK and NIXON. Absolute miracles of casting & performance. And cinematography. And makeup. And editing. And sweaty, paranoid vibes. And everything else filmmaking requires. https://t.co/hj6Kcd1nnX

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This is the best writing I've ever read. I think about it all the time. Richard Yates, YOUNG HEARTS CRYING: https://t.co/Y59ITR7QMU

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Oliver Stone...not a lot of directors became household names & cultural touchstones since his heyday to anywhere near the same degree. Tarantino. Maybe Jordan Peele. But Stone had that singular hard-charging, sweaty, secrets-of-the-universe vibe from '86 into the mid-90s. https://t.co/SK9rUswtt2

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Our favorite "independent" voices in media have recreated panel discussions on Hardball With Chris Matthews except you don't even get the benefit of Chris' unintentional comedy stylings. Bleak! https://t.co/lUp5Q5YMdw