LIFE ITSELF: A MEMOIR BY ROGER EBERT – “Aren’t They Those Two Guys?”

Life Itself: A Memoir by Roger Ebert, 2011

448 pages, Grand Central Publishing, 27.99

Usually our “butting heads” approach to books is pitting one of them against another, but in the case of this Roger Ebert autobiography, we thought it might be interesting to invite our movie review critics, John and his dog. Spanky, in from the other room to get their take.

JOHN: Well this long book has some ups and downs, mainly because I think a reader goes to it for some specific interest (behind the scenes on his relationship with Gene Siskel or Ebert’s take on famous movie directors) and then

THE WRITER’S CAVE (CD) – “Why writers write what they do.”

Brand new, studio-recorded CD available here for $10 and from amazon.com for $12.

The Writer’s Cave is a dramatic presentation by poet/writer/playwright John Lehman. It is full of true examples of how the creative process works, including such examples as a first-hand encounter with Orson Welles and the inside story of the book, America’s Greatest Unknown Poet: Lorine Niedecker.