OFF THE WALL
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BROWN BUFFALO by Oscar Zeta Acosta (Straight Arrow): If you�ve read Hunter Thompson�s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, you probably wonder who Dr. Gonzo, a boozing, doping Samoan therein, is. Well, he�s really a Mexican lawyer, and this is his autobiography.
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OFF THE WALL
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BROWN BUFFALO by Oscar Zeta Acosta (Straight Arrow): If you�ve read Hunter Thompson�s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, you probably wonder who Dr. Gonzo, a boozing, doping Samoan therein, is. Well, he�s really a Mexican lawyer, and this is his autobiography. Pretty weird, too.
R. McGarvey
BOB DYLAN by Anthony Scaduto (Signet): This is the book on Dylan; it is both one of the best books ever written about a rock personality, maybe the best biography and a crushing disappointment. It definitely must be read, but it�s also true that Scaduto�s dismissal of Dylan�s Golden Era, �65-�66, when he was making as tough a brand of rock as anyone before or since, is a drag. Despite that, and a tendency to make excuses for the star, this is a must.
SOME ENCHANTED EGOS by Donald Zee (St. Martin�s Press): The bitchiest book about pop personalities. It�s not worthwhile unless you have a star fixation, but the piece on P.J. Proby is a classic case of never the twain shall meet: �You may come to laugh,�� Proby assures Zee, � but I guarantee you�ll get a surprise.� As suitable a description of this laugh-a-minute, lavishly illustrated collection of pieces from The London Daily Mirror as any.
CASTRATED: My Eight MonthsIn Prison by Ralph Ginzburg (Avant Garde): Eunuch or not, Ginzburg hasn�t lost his touch. He�s still the foremost living disciple of P.T. Barnum. $2.95 for this gem brings you 35 pages, printed on left-over stock from Avant-Garde. If you�ve succumbed to Ginzburg�s other scams (Avant-Garde, Eros, Fact, Moneysworth) you might as well play the geek again.
TALLULAH, DARLING OF THE GODS by Kieran Tunney (Dutton): Talullah was our kind of star. She greets the author from a steaming bath, they sleep together, spend the next fifteen years pondering his failures and her decline. Discreetly bitchy, oh so intimate, not particularly well wrtten, but if you think it all began with Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, guess again, my sweet bozo. ^
