Books by Jonathan Cott and Complete Book Reviews

Jonathan Cott. Yale Univ., $26 (168p) ISBN 978-0-300-18979-7
Cott (Days That I Remember: Spending Time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono), a founding contributing editor of Rolling Stone, presents the full text of an interview he conducted in 1978 with Sontag, which was excerpted in the magazine in 1979....
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Jonathan Cott, Author . Random $24.95 (214p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6058-0
Cott, a Rolling Stone writer, lost the memory of 15 years of his life (from 1985 to 2000) after receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for severe depression. Forced to rely on the testimony of friends and his own previous writings to build...
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Jonathan Cott, Author Doubleday Books $17.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-385-24144-1
Interviewer Cott (The Search for Omm Sety, etc.) makes himself familiar with his subjects, then goes deep inside their minds. In one of the 10 conversations here, Bob Dylan explains why he believes Jesus had to die after taking on the bad karma of...
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Jonathan Cott, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24.95 (438p) ISBN 978-0-394-57152-2
Best remembered for his writings on Japan, where he settled in 1890, Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) is too often pigeonholed as a decadent aesthete or a stylist of overripe prose. Interweaving generous selections from Hearn's own letters, articles,...
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Jonathan Cott, Author Doubleday Books $23 (209p) ISBN 978-0-385-41797-6
In this exotic piece of reportage, Cott ( The Search for Omm Sety ) first retells the Egyptian myth of Isis, goddess of fertility and healing, who restored to life her murdered twin brother and lover Osiris. Cott then investigates the myth's...
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Jonathan Cott, Author Doubleday Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-41798-3
Thirteen is Jonathan Cott's (Iris and Osiris) 13th book, and while it may not suffer an unlucky fate, it seems too slight a volume to bring Cott great good fortune. Although Cott, with wit and diligence, says in it just about all there is to say...
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Jonathan Cott. Doubleday, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-53637-0
A contributing editor to Rolling Stone since its inception, Jonathan Cott (Conversations with Glenn Gould, Dylan, Forever Young, etc.) met myriad musicians, but few—if any—made as deep an impression on him as John Lennon. An unabashed lover of the...
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Jonathan Cott. Doubleday, $30 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-54043-8
Journalist and author Cott (Days That I’ll Remember) reflects on his friendship with Maurice Sendak and explores the late children’s book author’s themes and styles from different psychological and artistic perspectives with the help of experts in...
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Jonathan Cott. . Univ. of Minnesota, $29.95 (360p) ISBN 978-1-5179-0901-7
Rolling Stone contributing editor Cott (There’s a Mystery There) offers fascinating insights into the minds and work of renowned creative figures in this collection of 22 interviews he’s done over the course of his career. Cott speaks to Bob Dylan...
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