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Your Limo Is Waiting!
What You Want Is in the Limo officially launches today after relentless toil on its behalf by the staff at Spiegel & Grau and Random House and their many elves throughout the publishing firmament. I’ll take credit for the reporting and writing, but in the end it was a collaboration, as are the best creative endeavors.
Seems hard to fathom that the handsome artifact being loaded onto the front tables at the Fifth Avenue Barnes & Noble a couple blocks from where I write this started three years ago with my idle notion to write something about the rock and roll backstage culture of the early 1970s.
That inchoate “idea” was sharpened in several unsentimental conversations with my literary agent, Daniel Greenberg, who stopped muttering “I can’t sell that” when we finally decided that following three seminal bands, at the peaks of their careers, in the star-crossed year of 1973, might be a better way to get at what I was trying to say.
It was a labor of love, or something close to it, to write about the dancing days of the summer of 1973 and that fleeting moment when the cultures of the 1960s and 1970s briefly commingled before separating for good.
I hope you enjoy What You Want Is in the Limo and look forward to hearing your impressions.
Welcome!
Michael Walker
New York City, 7-23-13
Seems hard to fathom that the handsome artifact being loaded onto the front tables at the Fifth Avenue Barnes & Noble a couple blocks from where I write this started three years ago with my idle notion to write something about the rock and roll backstage culture of the early 1970s.
That inchoate “idea” was sharpened in several unsentimental conversations with my literary agent, Daniel Greenberg, who stopped muttering “I can’t sell that” when we finally decided that following three seminal bands, at the peaks of their careers, in the star-crossed year of 1973, might be a better way to get at what I was trying to say.
It was a labor of love, or something close to it, to write about the dancing days of the summer of 1973 and that fleeting moment when the cultures of the 1960s and 1970s briefly commingled before separating for good.
I hope you enjoy What You Want Is in the Limo and look forward to hearing your impressions.
Welcome!
Michael Walker
New York City, 7-23-13
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