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29/100Critics
13/100Scholars
Author:
Jann S. Wenner
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Date:
September 13, 2022
The memoir of Jann S. Weber, founder, co-editor, and publisher of Rolling Stone.
What The Reviewers Say
The literary equivalent of a diss track: a retort to Joe Hagan’s biography, Sticky Fingers, which was published five years ago, after Wenner’s initial cooperation curdled into public repudiation.
Wenner might just as accurately have called his doorstop of a book 'I Am Very Rich, and All My Friends Are Extremely Famous'.
Some memoirs are deeply introspective; others amount to victory laps sandwiched between covers. Jann Wenner’s Like a Rolling Stone falls firmly in the second category.
Few people have interacted with more celebrities, rock stars and politicians than Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone. Even fewer possess Wenner's prodigious wordsmanship; in his soaring memoir, Like a Rolling Stone (clocking in at nearly 600 pages), he captures these encounters, fights and friendships with much verve and economy.
