Columnist, The Oregonian newspaper; also the author of "Catch A Wave: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson," (Rodale, 2006) and a biography of Paul McCartney (Simon & Schuster, 2009)
Good writing of all sorts. Tom Wolfe, David Foster Wallace, Ernest Hemingway, Bruce Springsteen. Why is it always white guys? I've got to get out more.
Favorite Books
"A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," Hemingway's collected short stories, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." And so on.
Favorite Authors
Roth; Hemingway; Chabon; Thom Jones (what's he up to?); more and more.
What I'm Reading
Lots of stuff to prepare for the book I'm trying to write.
