Bøger af Steven Gaines

A sequel to the author’s critically acclaimed Delphinium title, One of These Things First, The Greta Garbo Home for Wayward Boys and Girls is a poison-pen, love letter to the end of an era—Manhattan during the decadent, late 1970s. Picking up where he left off at the end of his widely praised debut memoir, One of These Things First, Gaines recounts his hilarious, sometimes poignant attempt to forge a writing career and a successful love life in the gay world of the 1970s. He has limited success until he falls in love with an older woman dying of cancer. Meanwhile, he serendipitously begins a career as a writer when he meets a former child evangelist, and with naïve chutzpah, manages to land a book deal that leads to a whirlwind career as a biographer, rock and roll columnist, and roman à clef novelist who writes a book with a Studio 54 bartender that brings the world down around them. From inside the entertainment business in New York and L.A. to inside the publishing world, Gaines narrates a life of escapades and adventures and searching for love in all the wrong places. After hitting rock bottom, he writes a book about the Beatles that ends up on the New York Times bestseller list, leading to popular esteem and a feeling of momentary redemption.

All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, containing stunning new revelations, about the biggest band the world has ever seen.In 1980-1981 former COO of Apple Corp, Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines interviewed everyone in the Beatles' inner circle and included a small portion of the transcripts in their international bestselling book The Love You Make, which spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list. But left in their archives was a treasure trove of unique and candid interviews that they chose not to publish, until now. A powerful work assembled through honest, intimate, sometimes contradictory and always fascinating testimony, All You Need is Love is a one-of-a-kind insight into the final days, weeks, months and years of the Beatles phenomenon.

A Thug'z Luv is a gripping story with a natural street language, centering around Jason Blue, who at the tender age of six, lost his father to drugs and crime in the streets of Fort Worth, Texas. Now living with his single white mother, Paris Blue, in an all Black Community on the South Side of Town; he has to learn to deal with life on a level far beyond an average kid his age. Jason at the age of six does not understand why his mother keeps him locked in the house away from other kids. But as time goes on he, is faced with the facts of life and learns about different Races, Prejudices, Betrayasl, Death and most of all, "GAMES OF GANGS." And yet against all odds, Jason progresses and gains their Trust and Respect by remaining True to Himself and staying down with the hood. Becoming part of the street gang was not something Jason had as a goal in life, but it was his way of life, therefore he took pride in who and what he was. Jason remains respectful to his mother, but finds a deeper love for the guys that call themselves "Gangsters of the Hood" and a life he was so destined to lead. So he hits up the gang signs and vows for life to maintain; "True Homies" are what he lived for and at all cost, may die for...

* Gossipy stories of Manhattan celebrities - from Jerry Seinfeld to Barbra Streisand to Gloria Vanderbilt.

"The Beach Boys have been rolling, like the tide their great songs evoke, for more than thirty years, reaching professional peaks and tragic personal depths. In this electrifying account Steven Gaines"