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Crispin Kott

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Crispin Kott was born in Chicago, raised in New York, and has called everywhere from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Atlanta home. A music historian and failed drummer, he’s written for numerous print and online publications, and has shared with his son Ian and daughter Marguerite a love of reading, writing, and record collecting. As a longtime Brooklyn resident and recent returnee to the Bay Area, Crispin has been able to indulge in his love of Rock & Roll of the past, present, and future.

Crispin Kott is the co-author of Resident Punk: How I Smoked, Drank, and Stumbled My Way Through the '70s Punk Scene (and Beyond) (BenBella Books, September 2026), the Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City (Globe Pequot Press, June 2018), the Litt
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Bond, James Bond - Mapping the Chronology

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A few months ago I read Forever and a Day, a novel written by Anthony Horowitz with the approval of the Ian Fleming estate in which James Bond earns his "00" status. Set just prior to Fleming's first Bond novel, Casino Royale, Forever and a Day did a splendid job of setting the table, and it also reminded me that I hadn't read any of the series since I was a teenager. Less concerned with sticking Read more of this blog post »
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Resident Punk by Legs McNeil
"I received an audiobook ARC of this novel in thanks to the publisher and NetGalley.
"Resident Punk" is a novel that is pitched as part memoir part cultural history. Legs McNeil played a huge, influential role on the punk scene in the 1970's, and trul" Read more of this review »
Resident Punk by Legs McNeil
"Thank you to NetGalley and Brilliance Publishing for the advance audio version of this book. All thoughts are my own.

Legs McNeil was an icon of the 70s New York punk scene, and the first book of his that I read, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral Hi" Read more of this review »
Resident Punk by Legs McNeil
"After finishing Cicero's Tongue, classicist Catharine Edwards' life and times of Rome's great orator and social commentator, I looked around for a good companion read. Which is how I ended up reading Resident Punk, Legs McNeil's memoir. Is McNeil a m" Read more of this review »
Resident Punk by Legs McNeil
"I loved this book! In all honesty, I’ve met Legs a few times and have a phone number for him in my phone, which probably isn’t good anymore. That being said, that had nothing to do with my loving this book.

It’s always been interesting to read his wo" Read more of this review »
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Crispin Kott Tara wrote: "'Everybody Poops' is my favorite book, too!"

Just read this to Marguerite last night. Still a favorite in the Kott-Levine house.


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Tara 'Everybody Poops' is my favorite book, too!


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