The Beach Boys’ Crazy Summer

Brian Wilson, the lumbering savant who wrote, produced and sang an outlandish number of immortal pop songs back in the 1960s with his band, the Beach Boys, is swiveling in a chair, belly out, arms…
PUBLISHED: May 27, 2012
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5644 words)

My Top Five Longreads of 2011 (Actually, Way More Than 5)

OK, I know the Longreads folks are asking writers and editors and other journalistic types to send in their five favorite reads of the year, but for my, whittling this list down to five seemed…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 31, 2011
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1490 words)
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