{"product_id":"innocent-when-you-dream-the-tom-waits-reader-9781560256670","title":"Innocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first collection of writings about Tom Waits -- interviews, profiles, conversations, and more -- spanning the artist's thirty-year career in music, film and theater\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Over the past three decades, Tom Waits has achieved the kind of top-shelf cult status most artists only dream about. In his varied career, he has acted alongside Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, and Lily Tomlin; his songs have been covered by artists as diverse as Bruce Springsteen, Sarah McLachlan, the Eagles, and the Ramones; he's won two Grammys, a Golden Globe, and been nominated for an Oscar; he's coined unforgettable phrases like \"better a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy\" and \"champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends\"; and he's made anyone who's ever listened to his music just that much cooler. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here is Tom Waits in all his mischievous splendor. From a \u003ci\u003eNew\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eYorker \u003c\/i\u003e\"Talk of the Town\" in 1976 to an interview by Terry Gilliam in 1999; from album reviews by Luc Sante and David Fricke to conversations with Elvis Costello and Roberto Benigni; from a recent profile in \u003ci\u003eGQ \u003c\/i\u003eto \"20 Questions\" in \u003ci\u003ePlayboy \u003c\/i\u003eand poems by Charles Bukowski that perfectly captures the Waitsian world\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e this is the must-have book for every fan of the artist Beck has described as a \"luminary,\" and for music fans everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMac Montandon\u003c\/b\u003e is the editor of \u003ci\u003eInnocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Radar\u003c\/i\u003e, Salon.com, and \u003ci\u003eInterview\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Da Capo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473813377298,"sku":"9781560256670","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d93932df-8fe4-42e3-a2cf-f1393a3b21be.jpg?v=1730203239","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/innocent-when-you-dream-the-tom-waits-reader-9781560256670","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}