Category: A Good Life All the Way
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‘Get Off on … A1A’ and the early struggle to sell Jimmy Buffett to the world
Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way will be out May 9 on Touchstone Books. It’s about Jimmy Buffett and Margaritaville and the way time passes and the world changes. It’s about middle class yearning and the dream of something more beyond the Bed, Bath & Beyond. Among other things. So the thing you hear […]
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A lunch date with Lip Balm (Or: The time Buffett signed a dog)
Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way will be released May 9 by Touchstone Books. Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers says it “manages to go well beyond the mythology and legends while still giving them their just place in the grand design. An excellent read.” The day I had lunch with Bob Liberman, I […]
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Jimmy Buffett, Harrison Ford and the Margaritaville movie that almost was
Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way is out May 9 on Touchstone Books. So there was Jimmy Buffett, on Instagram doing Jimmy Buffett things — flying, surfing, singing and recreating in tropics. For example, there’s the hero of our story, hard at work on a catamaran in Fiji. What’s he working on? The upcoming Escape […]
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Deleted scenes: Down around Biloxi
A book is a big project. Like a movie, things get left behind. Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way began as a travel story. The book being released May 9 became a more traditionally structured story of a man and his song, and how they’re inextricably intertwined. But the road was fun. Here’s a deleted […]
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Garden & Gun says ‘Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way’ sings
Garden & Gun is a fantastic magazine and I feel Ok saying that because I believed Garden Gun to be a fantastic magazine before its April/May issue hit the stands with a lovely piece about the book inside and some good dogs on the cover. Forgive me this one* indulgence: … White pecked admirably around the […]
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Deleted Scenes: Walking through New Orleans
Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way is available May 9 from Touchstone Books. Peter Ames Carlin, the New York Times bestselling author of Bruce, says it “is so much more than an account of sandy-footed slacker king Jimmy Buffett. It’s also a peek into the yearning heart of overworked Americans searching for their own […]
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Hayes Carll, Tom Corcoran, Peter Ames Carlin and Patterson Hood walk into a blurb
This? It’s one big thank you note. But it’s also about this: Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way, the story of how Jimmy Buffett made Margaritaville, and how Margaritaville made Jimmy Buffett. Due May 9 from Touchstone Books. You can preorder at Powell’s or Amazon. The way Hayes Carll describes it, Crystal Beach, Texas was a little like Margaritaville. […]
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One from the road: Pensacola
Winter, which barely ever exists in Portland, has sucked in Portland. I was warmer when I took this in 2015, on the beach behind the Margaritaville Hotel in Pensacola, Fla. “This must have been a fun book to work on,” people say. It was. Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way, the story of […]
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Look in a Fodor’s Guide
Once, at Key West’s sunset celebration in Mallory Square, I watched a large man somersault through a small hoop. Writing a book is a little like that. You set out to accumulate as much information as you can and winnow it into a manuscript. Your editor winnows it more. In response, you jam a bunch of […]
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