My guest today, British author and pop culture historian Jon Kremer is appearing on StoryBeat for the second time. He’s best known for his memoirs and books detailing the 1960s pop and rock music scene. A long-standing friendship with “Year of the Cat”...
“To the aspiring writer who has always wanted to give it a try. I would just strongly encourage you to try it. Right. It’s going to be difficult writing that first chapter. That first paragraph is incredibly difficult. But I think you will find that if you...
“I wasn’t trying to be Buddy Holly or Elvis Presley or anything like that, but I felt that I needed to learn exactly what they were doing as at least a platform to start to have the dexterity to create within those things. And in those days we were all...
“I really do believe that people should engage in a writing workshop or a class or something like that because I do think having feedback about how people are responding, it doesn’t mean you have to use it or agree with what they say. But it’s very...
“And he dials the number and Jack Nicholson answers the phone. Hello. I mean, you know, it’s Jack. He just launches into the spiel that we’d rehearsed a half a dozen times that were a couple film students. We’re doing this project. We’d...
