Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock Band Ever
Stephen King, Scott Turow, Mitch Albom, Amy Tan, Dave Barry, Roy Blount Jr., Matt Groening, Ridley Pearson, Sam Barry. James McBride, & MoreIMPORTANT: This version of Hard Listening includes essays, photos and interactive quizzes. For a version with video and audio clips, please search for the Enhanced Edition.
Over 350M books sold. Forty New York Times #1 Bestsellers. One lousy band. Now go behind the scenes to hear their stories firsthand.
In 1992, a cadre of the world’s bestselling authors formed a rock band called the Rock Bottom Remainders. For two decades the band played proudly (and some would say, terribly) to sold out crowds across the country. Now they’re hanging up their guitar picks, drumsticks and leather whips, but not without a look back at twenty years of friendship, love, writing, and the redemptive power of rock ’n’ roll.
Hard Listening is a voyeuristic view into the private lives of your favorite authors, combining essays, fiction, musings, candid email exchanges and conversations, compromising photographs, audio and video clips, and interactive quizzes for a groundbreaking ebook experience. See Stephen King, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, Dave and Sam Barry, Roy Blount Jr., Mitch Albom, James McBride, Ridley Pearson, Matt Groening, Greg Iles, and rock legend Roger McGuinn at their most unguarded.
www.rockbottomremainders.com
Written by: Stephen King, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, Dave Barry, Sam Barry, Roy Blount Jr., Mitch Albom, James McBride, Ridley Pearson, Matt Groening, Greg Iles, Roger McGuinn and Ted Habte-Gabr
Edited by: Sam Barry and Jennifer Lou
Review"If there was ever a story that screamed out for a multimedia e-book treatment, it's the tale of The Rock Bottom Remainders . . . a bookish band, a small army of best-selling authors--including Amy Tan, Dave Barry and Stephen King--who yowled out rock standards. . . . Hard Listening makes it clear that the members of the Remainders had an absolute blast as a band." - NPR Books
From the AuthorI can't speak for all of the Rock Bottom Remainders or the great folks at Coliloquy (the publisher), but for me it was a true honor and a real pleasure compiling, writing, and editing this interactive e-book. I am forever grateful to my band mates, who created this book in honor of my late wife, the founder of the Rock Bottom Remainders, Kathi Kamen Goldmark.