Author: Steven Hayward
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New Springsteen film worth a watch but doesn’t match level of the book it’s based on
By Steven Hayward, Special to The Gazette One of the great detours of contemporary music was made by Bruce Springsteen in the late 1970s. Fresh off a massive tour following his double album, “The River,” Springsteen eschewed a return to the studio, opting instead to move back to New Jersey where he rented a drab…
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Author coming to Colorado College to speak about inspiring U.S. battle in Korean War
Celebrated author Hampton Sides returns to Colorado College on Sunday to discuss his newest book, “On Desperate Ground”, about the Battle of Chosin, seen by many as the greatest battle of the Korean War. Sides addressed what attracted him to the story of that historic battle and the experience of writing about one of the…
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Cartoon king Robert Mankoff bringing humor to Colorado Springs
Robert Mankoff is the cartoon editor at the New Yorker, one of the nation’s more venerable magazines. As funny as Mankoff is – and he is funny – he’s very serious, even philosophical, when it comes to talking about what makes people laugh. Mankoff, who’ll be in town Thursday for a lecture at Colorado College,…
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An appreciation: Bob Dylan’s work truly is literature
You’ve likely heard by now that Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday. And it was not an uncontroversial decision. I’ll admit to having reservations. I’m an English professor by trade, and there’s a part of me that wondered at the thought of literature’s highest honor being bestowed on a songwriter. It…
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Beach Boy Mike Love reflects on career during Colorado Springs stop
At 75, Mike Love still looks like a Beach Boy. His eyes are clear and blue, his baseball cap still intact, and he’s smiling the same slightly mischievous smile seen 55 years ago while clutching a surfboard on the group’s debut album. His recently published autobiography, “Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy,” is…