Steven Lewis, Writer
Reviews
Read what the press and other authors are saying about Steve Lewis and his
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"Author Explores Aging: Die-hard hippie takes
humorous look at retiring"
Steve Lewis saw the future a long time ago. Here's what he saw back when
he was a teenager growing up on Long Island:
"It was always the same with them ... the plaid-on-plaid foursome —
Murray, Mac, Herman and my old man sitting around the den swapping stories
about their glory days on the Lower East Side. Oh, I got an earful, and a
bellyful, about the fabulous music of the '20s and '30s, the profound lessons
of the Great Depression, the greatest president that ever lived, the greatest
generation ... and then, after the cigars came out and the Johnnie Walker
made its first turn and their chins receding into jowls, I'd hear the old
rant about the country going into the gutter ... the television, the rock
'n' roll, the protesters." |
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article by Jeremiah Horrigan, Times Herald-Record, February 29, 2008
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"Leave it to the author of Zen and the Art of Fatherhood to show
us that the Tao is not to be found in Taos, that Ken Kesey's bus "Further"
was no RV, that "far out" is not necessarily far away, and that dropping
out doesn't mean dropping everything we love for some white-belted,
pastel-colored gated community of eternal golf. Just when I thought that
the sixites were really over---'Holy flashback, Batman, they're back!'" |
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Gary Allen, author of The Herbalist in the Kitchen
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"While I'm impressed to see that Steven Lewis can function as a sexagenarian
father of seven after enduring the dreug abuse of the 1960s, I'm even more
impressed at this impassioned and hilarious look at entering the dreaded
senior years. His determination to hold on to a youthful spirit and keep
the tides of geriatric-hood at bay brings to mind another 60 year old fighter,
Winston Churchill, who vowed to 'fight on the fields and in the streets ...
fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.'" |
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Jacob Lewis, former managing editor, The New Yorker
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"Put on your best green party pants and Members Only jacket and climb
aboard Lewis's Deadhead sticker-sporting Cadillac SUV. Enjoy the long, strange
trip alongside Sal Paradise, Lou Reed, and Bill Burroughs as Lewis brilliantly
navigates us on a southbound route from Woodstock to Assisted Living. Boca
Raton looming brightly like a bug zapper in the distance. Lewis's funny,
sharp, insightful observations will get you there just in time for the early-bird
special. To paraphrase the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 'Don't just do something,
sit there. And while you're at it, read this terrific book!'" |
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Peter Steinfeld, screenwriter, Echo, Drowning Mona, Analyze That, Be
Cool and the forthcoming Twenty-One.
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