Life in the Stone Age
Rolling Stone Magazine: The Uncensored History by Robert Draper (Doubleday, 389 pp., $19.95) Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream Gonzo Papers: Volume 3 by Hunter S. Thompson (Summit Books, 315 pp., $21.95) Blown Away: The Rolling Stones and the Death of the Sixties by A. E. Hotchner (Simon and Schuster, 349 pp., $21.95) READ MORE >>
Lives Of The Saints
The Lives of John Lennon by Albert Goldman (Morrow, 719 pp., $22,95) Yesterday: The Unauthorized Biography of Paul McCartney by Chet Flippo (Doubleday, 400 pp., $18.95) I. READ MORE >>
Excerpt From: “Talk Talk”
Now that the schools have more or less abandoned the responsibility, passing judgment on speech has become semi-institutionalized in our society in the columns and commentaries of the so-called 'pop grammarians.' The label is a little unfair, since talking about talk is, or ought to be, a kind of right of cultural citizenship. But the unfairness reflects a suspicion that usage commentators are not really talking about talk at all: they are trying to tell us how to live. READ MORE >>
Talk Talk
A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, Volume 4; Se-Z edited by R, W, Burchfield (Oxford University Press, 1,454 pp., $150) The Story of English by Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil (Elisabeth Sifton Books/Viking, 384 pp.,$24,95) American Talk: The Words and Ways of American Dialects by Robert Hendrlckson (Viking, 231 pp., $18.95) Take My Word For It READ MORE >>
