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Catching Up: Connecting with Great 21st Century Music
My “Catching Up: Connecting with Great 21st Century Music” was published four years ago. It includes capsule reviews of 50 albums intended to support my position that rock-and-pop music is as great now it’s ever been.
August’s New Music Mix
August’s New Music Mix with Bon Iver, Brockhampton, Common, Lana Del Rey, Marika Hackman, Jay Som, Taylor Swift, Trisha Yearwood and many, many more.
Niall Nelson Is on My Flight
On a flight to Paris to pitch a film about British folk legend Nick Drake, a struggling screenwriter meets action hero Niall Nelson.
Books
A Song for Katy Shayne
When a music critic learns a talented young singer might have been murdered, he delves into the past, only to find peril in the present.
The Price You Pay
A crime thriller, coming-of-age story and a family saga set in the mid-1970s in a crumbling city where violence and coercion reign.
Closing Time
This “dead perfect” noir-inflected murder mystery carries readers from New York’s most elite precincts to its dirtiest gutters (Robert B. Parker).
A Well-Known Secret
PI Terry Orr returns in this “complex, haunting story” of conspiracy and murder in post-9/11 New York (Publishers Weekly).
Narrows Gate
“Outstanding in every way – major talent, voice, feel and been-there knowledge meets a story as tough and complex as the time that inspired it.” (Lee Child)
Short Stories
American Author
Jim Fusilli
Jim Fusilli is the author of novels including A SONG FOR KATY SHAYNE, THE PRICE YOU PAY, and NARROWS GATE, which George Pelecanos called “equal parts Ellroy, Puzo and Scorsese” and Mystery Scene magazine said “must be ranked among the half-dozen most memorable novels about the Mob.” He’s also host and executive producer of the popular podcast Writers at Work.
The former Rock & Pop Critic of The Wall Street Journal, Jim’s book PET SOUNDS is his tribute to Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys’ classic album. He lives in New York City.