Blog: Are You Gene Hackman?

Last night I read the novel ' Kill Your Friends ' by John Niven. It's a book that Lauren won from The Roaring 20s and I kind of brow-beat her into letting me read first. It's set in London in 1997, at a major record label, and provides an inside-baseball look at how the A&R Department functions. That year was when I started really getting into music, and discovering newer bands, etc, and so the references meant a lot more to me than they would to most U.S. readers. One of the backdrops is the intense [...]