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38 hours in Key West for a sold-out talk about Jimmy Buffett. Plus, the updated edition of “A Good Life All the Way” is available now.
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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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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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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 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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Bruce Springsteen was talking about compromise last night. Adult compromise, as viewed by the kids startled to first discover Mom and Dad had hopes and dreams. The world takes some of those away. You choose to let go of others. These aren’t easy choices. What the kids don’t see, Bruce said, are “the blessings of compromise.”…
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A couple of weeks ago, when I was supposed to be home alone with my feet on the wall, I sneaked out of the house, met up with some pals and enjoyed the hell out of two happy hour sets by Redray Frazier at the Laurelthirst Pub. If you don’t know Redray, you should. Because…
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