Category: Reporting

• 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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  April 15, 2017

  A Good Life All the Way, jimmy buffett, on the road again, Reporting

• 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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  April 10, 2017

  A Good Life All the Way, jimmy buffett, music, Reporting

• 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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  November 16, 2016

  A Good Life All the Way, jimmy buffett, Reporting