Peter Ames Carlin
@peteramescarlin.bsky.social
Journalist, writer and author of BRUCE, THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS R.E.M. and etc. Coming in Aug 2025: TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND.
it's gotta be embarrassing to be a shortstop and explain to people what you do. yeah i'm an infielder. no i'm not the guy who throws it. no i don't have my own base. huh? no no, it's totally cool with ballpark security, they told me i can stand out there. hm? no, not "sportstop." shortstop. mhm
Coming to you on August 11: The paperback edition of TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND. And how about that delightful blurb on the cover? @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net #tonightinjungleland
Hotel room coffee, the bitter oddly creamy stuff you get out of the in-room machine with the pods, seems engineered to convince you to stop drinking coffee once and for all.
I'm rooting hard for the Knicks. But isn't there something repellant about the news (via @benstiller.redhour.com) that the celebs in prime seats are getting their tickets for free, while ordinary rich folks pay thousands of $ to sit upstairs and normal working people are priced out onto the street?
To be fair, he really needs daytime rest after being up all night posting fantasy A-I images of himself on "Truth" Social, as all presidents do.
Minnesota GOP actually mourn the sacrifice of a police officer who executed a helpless Black man and was found guilty of murder. This is repellant and awful. Does the MinnGOP have a pro-lynching plank in their platform? Do they believe white men should be free to murder Black men at will?
Minnesota GOP convention has moment of silence for Derek Chauvin
Yesterday, the Minnesota Republican Party held its nominating convention in Duluth. But the most outrageous moment came early in the proceedings. You read that right. The Minnesota GOP saw fit to have...
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Outside the coffee shop a couple were discussing their mutual colleague and friend Sabina. But is she really their friend? “I just don’t know if Sabina is trustworthy,” the guy said. The woman nodded. You never know with Sabina. But is that a character flaw? Or is it kind of…hot? #TeamSabina
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz grew up poor in publicly subsidized housing in NYC, but now that he’s rich he can’t tolerate “socialistic” Seattle. It’s always bracing to see how greedy and socially irresponsible a rich man can become. www.seattletimes.com/business/sta...
Howard Schultz takes a jab at Seattle after moving to Miami
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz criticized the city and its mayor in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece.
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Here's news about the new book by me and @clairedederer.bsky.social, for my pals at @doubledaybooks.bsky.social, publishers of my last two books. True facts: Claire is not just the author of 'Monsters,' the great book of social criticism, but also my real life wife.
who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters
Hey friends: I'm teaching a live 90 minute online class on December 18 to share what I've learned about artistry, identity and authenticity from Bruce Springsteen, the subject of two (2) books I've written, TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND and BRUCE. Join us!
Hey @actblueorg.bsky.social : Two years after I filled in your form to stop getting texts and emails I still receive dozens of unsolicited fundraising pitches from random campaigns each week. Your org is a scam and a scourge. I will never contribute to anything affiliated with you. Congrats!
Hey fellow authors: Remember when composing your author bio that just because you're writing about yourself in the third person most readers will still know that the person describing you as "legendary" and "beloved" and "the world's leading (fill in the blank)" is actually: You.
@actblueorg.bsky.social: Hey fyi, the relentless fundraising solicitations, literally hundreds and hundreds, I’ve received from every D campaign in the USA, thanks to your giving my info to anyone willing to pay for it, means I will never ever give money to any campaign affiliated with you.
The assassin turns out to be the same guy it always is: a random crazy with snakes in his head and a legally-obtained battlefield weapon in his hands. He doesn’t have beliefs, let alone a manifesto. He has a disease and a society that mistakes the power to kill for freedom. #kirk
Here's our fantastic chat with @peteramescarlin.bsky.social about his definitive R.E.M. biography. We took in Seattle, Athens, and New Jersey in a winding and got some insight into why the book is constructed in an atypical way for a biography and why rebuilding 1970s Athens was important!
Hey I got to talk about @brucespringsteen.net and TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND with @davidhepworth.bsky.social on Word in Your Ear! @doubledaybooks.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytuw...
Peter Ames Carlin on the record that made Bruce Springsteen
YouTube video by Word In Your Ear
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We'll be running an excerpt from it soon, but I wanted to give a huge shout-out to @peteramescarlin.bsky.social’s amazing book 'Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run.' Every Springsteen fan needs to buy it now: www.amazon.com/Tonight-Jung...
Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run
Amazon.com: Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run: 9780385551533: Carlin, Peter Ames: Books
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As Born to Run approaches the 50th anniversary of its release, here is a great @npr.org Fresh Air with Terry Gross interview with author @peteramescarlin.bsky.social - www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...
Springsteen's label was about to drop him. Then came 'Born to Run'
Biographer Peter Ames Carlin describes the making of Born to Run as an "existential moment" for Springsteen: "If this didn't work, he was done." Carlin's new book is Tonight in Jungleland.
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Happy pub day to @peteramescarlin.bsky.social and “Tonight in Jungleland,” the story of someone putting in the work because it mattered more than anything in the world. It’s inspiring, sharply written, fantastically reported. bookshop.org/p/books/toni...
Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run
The Making of Born to Run
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1002! Peter Ames Carlin hear Kreative Kontrol ⬇️ 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e... 💰: www.patreon.com/posts/ep-100... ☁️: overcast.fm/+AA3_nvaastY vk: bit.ly/4moe7Ni 🌲: linktr.ee/vishkhanna @peteramescarlin.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net
And now it's here! TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND, the Making of 'Born to Run' is published today by @doubledaybooks.bsky.social. Here are just a few of the early reviews. Tour dates start TONIGHT in Seattle. @brucespringsteen.net
Gay friends! Especially you guys: looking for a romantic, orientation-specific love song for your wedding or just for date night? Here's Bob Dylan's performance of "She's Funny That Way," revised to "He's Funny That Way." It's lovely! (and so are you!) open.spotify.com/track/2o8d8E...
He's Funny That Way
Bob Dylan · Universal Love - Wedding Songs Reimagined · Song · 2018
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