A Christmas List

For anyone out there who might be thinking of giving Santa a hand with the gift-giving this year, here are the items I requested in my letter to Mr. Claus.

Books

Mark Harris, Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War (Movies)

Benjamin Cawthra, Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz (Music/Photography)
Martin Short, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend (Humor/Biography)

Joanna Levin, Bohemia in America, 1858-1920 (History)

Simon Napier-Bell, Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The Dodgy Business of Popular Music (Music)
Fred Turner, The Democratic Surround (History)

John Cleese, So, Anyway… (Humor/Biography)

Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI's War on Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power (History)

Farran Smith Nehme, Missing Reels (Fiction)

Joel Selvin, Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns(Music)

Amanda Petrusich, Do Not Sell at Any Price (Music)

Dennis McNally, On Highway 61 (Music)

Rachel Clare Donaldson, I Hear America Singing (Music)

Dick Cavett, Brief Encounters (Television/Journalism)

Bob Stanley, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyonce (Music)

DVDs

The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind

Crumb

The Americanization of Emily

In No Great Hurry- 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter

The Monkees, Season 1 or 2

CD

Wilco, Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rare Tracks 1994-2014

If anyone expecting a gift from me would like to put their Christmas wishlist in the comments section, I'll see what I can do.