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Books

Pretentious rock on a grand scale

5 August 2017

9:00 AM

5 August 2017

9:00 AM

There is many a book that has been cooked up over a liquid lunch, but rarely has one been so obviously ill-conceived as The Show That Never Ends, which comes complete with hyperbolic blurb from the esteemed novelist Michael Chabon. Yet what David Weigel provides is a masterclass in how not to write non-fiction.

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