james
gavin
author,
journalist
photo
by michael childers
Available
IN PAPERBACK
from Atria Books/Simon & Schuster:
Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne
Excerpts on
The Daily Beast
and
Vanity
Fair.com
According to LIZ SMITH's
review
of
Stormy Weather:
"I wish I could do justice to this book. I cannot. It is
impossible to convey its power ... Magnificent, gripping,
marvelously written."
See also: Liz in
Variety,
The New York Times Book
Review, O, the Oprah
Magazine,
Los Angeles
Times,
San Francisco
Chronicle,
The New
Yorker,
Huffington
Post,
USA Today,
Cindy Adams (New
York Post),
New York
Newsday,
Time Out New
York,
JazzTimes (Christopher
Loudon), Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette,
Boston
Globe,
Vogue.com,
Playbill.com,
More.com,
TrendHunter.com,
Bay Area
Reporter,
The Defenders
(Eise
Nefertari Ulen), Library
Journal,
Alan W. Petrucelli's
Entertainment Report,
Gay City News,
Edge (John
Amodeo), All About
Jazz,
St. Petersburg
Times,
Indianapolis
Star,
National
Examiner,
Shreveport
Times, Hilary
Gardner's Ad Alta
Voce,
AOL News
(by Willard
Jenkins), Correio Brasiliense
(Brasilia,
Brazil; by Juan Weik), Jerry Jazz
Musician and
Cabaret Scenes
interviews
with James, and Corey Jarrell's I'll Keep You
Posted.
NOW
ON TOUR: STORMY WEATHER: THE LENA HORNE PROJECT starring
MARY WILSON (formerly of the Supremes), JAMES GAVIN, and
the LARRY DUNLAP TRIO (see Appearances)
Deep
in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker
has been republished by Chicago Review Press. Read
Greil Marcus's review
on Salon...
Read a lengthy
one-to-one
between James Gavin and Lee Mergner, editor of
JazzTimes
My current biography-in-progress: PEGGY LEE!
"Please,
please NEVER tell my life story. Your eyes are too
keen."
(Richard
Rodriguez, author and cultural critic)
click
here for (ancient
and abandoned) blog
All
material herein, save for article photos: © James Gavin,
2011