Bruce springsteen biography critics reviews

Bruce Springsteen's new book is a rock memoir like none other, a strange and extraordinary book that just might be counted as one of his greatest achievements. Complex yet accessible, Born to Run not only explains Springsteen's career, by its very form it sheds new light on what makes him such a singular artist.

It's no surprise that the book is good: you knew that if and when the Boss decided to write a memoir, he wouldn't screw it up.

This is the guy who would go backstage and curl up with a book even at the height of his fame, the guy who reserved space on a live album for stage banter praising Joe Klein's biography of Woody Guthrie.

Springsteen is also, of course, known as a storyteller — both in his lyrics and between them, in the onstage "raps" he's long been famous for.

On that same album, Live 1975-85, he introduces "The River" (a song inspired by his sister's marriage) with an enormously moving story about his fat