Peter Ames Carlin
@peteramescarlin.bsky.social
Journalist, writer and author of BRUCE, THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS R.E.M. and etc. Coming in Aug 2025: TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND.
@actblueorg.bsky.social: Hey fyi, the relentless fundraising solicitations, literally hundreds and hundreds, I’ve received from every D campaign in the USA, thanks to your giving my info to anyone willing to pay for it, means I will never ever give money to any campaign affiliated with you.
September 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
@actblueorg.bsky.social: Hey fyi, the relentless fundraising solicitations, literally hundreds and hundreds, I’ve received from every D campaign in the USA, thanks to your giving my info to anyone willing to pay for it, means I will never ever give money to any campaign affiliated with you.
The assassin turns out to be the same guy it always is: a random crazy with snakes in his head and a legally-obtained battlefield weapon in his hands. He doesn’t have beliefs, let alone a manifesto. He has a disease and a society that mistakes the power to kill for freedom. #kirk
September 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The assassin turns out to be the same guy it always is: a random crazy with snakes in his head and a legally-obtained battlefield weapon in his hands. He doesn’t have beliefs, let alone a manifesto. He has a disease and a society that mistakes the power to kill for freedom. #kirk
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Here's our fantastic chat with @peteramescarlin.bsky.social about his definitive R.E.M. biography. We took in Seattle, Athens, and New Jersey in a winding and got some insight into why the book is constructed in an atypical way for a biography and why rebuilding 1970s Athens was important!
August 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Here's our fantastic chat with @peteramescarlin.bsky.social about his definitive R.E.M. biography. We took in Seattle, Athens, and New Jersey in a winding and got some insight into why the book is constructed in an atypical way for a biography and why rebuilding 1970s Athens was important!
Well! Some news! @brucespringsteen.net @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Well! Some news! @brucespringsteen.net @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
Hey I got to talk about @brucespringsteen.net and TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND with @davidhepworth.bsky.social on Word in Your Ear! @doubledaybooks.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytuw...
Peter Ames Carlin on the record that made Bruce Springsteen
YouTube video by Word In Your Ear
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August 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Hey I got to talk about @brucespringsteen.net and TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND with @davidhepworth.bsky.social on Word in Your Ear! @doubledaybooks.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytuw...
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We'll be running an excerpt from it soon, but I wanted to give a huge shout-out to @peteramescarlin.bsky.social’s amazing book 'Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run.' Every Springsteen fan needs to buy it now:
www.amazon.com/Tonight-Jung...
www.amazon.com/Tonight-Jung...
Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run
Amazon.com: Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run: 9780385551533: Carlin, Peter Ames: Books
www.amazon.com
August 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We'll be running an excerpt from it soon, but I wanted to give a huge shout-out to @peteramescarlin.bsky.social’s amazing book 'Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run.' Every Springsteen fan needs to buy it now:
www.amazon.com/Tonight-Jung...
www.amazon.com/Tonight-Jung...
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As Born to Run approaches the 50th anniversary of its release, here is a great @npr.org Fresh Air with Terry Gross interview with author @peteramescarlin.bsky.social - www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...
Springsteen's label was about to drop him. Then came 'Born to Run'
Biographer Peter Ames Carlin describes the making of Born to Run as an "existential moment" for Springsteen: "If this didn't work, he was done." Carlin's new book is Tonight in Jungleland.
www.npr.org
August 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
As Born to Run approaches the 50th anniversary of its release, here is a great @npr.org Fresh Air with Terry Gross interview with author @peteramescarlin.bsky.social - www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...
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Happy pub day to @peteramescarlin.bsky.social and “Tonight in Jungleland,” the story of someone putting in the work because it mattered more than anything in the world. It’s inspiring, sharply written, fantastically reported.
bookshop.org/p/books/toni...
bookshop.org/p/books/toni...
Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run
The Making of Born to Run
bookshop.org
August 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Happy pub day to @peteramescarlin.bsky.social and “Tonight in Jungleland,” the story of someone putting in the work because it mattered more than anything in the world. It’s inspiring, sharply written, fantastically reported.
bookshop.org/p/books/toni...
bookshop.org/p/books/toni...
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@peteramescarlin.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net
Peter Ames Carlin
hear Kreative Kontrol ⬇️
🍎: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e...
💰: www.patreon.com/posts/ep-100...
☁️: overcast.fm/+AA3_nvaastY
vk: bit.ly/4moe7Ni
🌲: linktr.ee/vishkhanna
@peteramescarlin.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net
August 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
1002!
Peter Ames Carlin
hear Kreative Kontrol ⬇️
🍎: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e...
💰: www.patreon.com/posts/ep-100...
☁️: overcast.fm/+AA3_nvaastY
vk: bit.ly/4moe7Ni
🌲: linktr.ee/vishkhanna
@peteramescarlin.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net
Peter Ames Carlin
hear Kreative Kontrol ⬇️
🍎: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e...
💰: www.patreon.com/posts/ep-100...
☁️: overcast.fm/+AA3_nvaastY
vk: bit.ly/4moe7Ni
🌲: linktr.ee/vishkhanna
@peteramescarlin.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net
And now it's here! TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND, the Making of 'Born to Run' is published today by @doubledaybooks.bsky.social. Here are just a few of the early reviews. Tour dates start TONIGHT in Seattle. @brucespringsteen.net
August 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
And now it's here! TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND, the Making of 'Born to Run' is published today by @doubledaybooks.bsky.social. Here are just a few of the early reviews. Tour dates start TONIGHT in Seattle. @brucespringsteen.net
Gay friends! Especially you guys: looking for a romantic, orientation-specific love song for your wedding or just for date night? Here's Bob Dylan's performance of "She's Funny That Way," revised to "He's Funny That Way." It's lovely! (and so are you!) open.spotify.com/track/2o8d8E...
He's Funny That Way
Bob Dylan · Universal Love - Wedding Songs Reimagined · Song · 2018
open.spotify.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Gay friends! Especially you guys: looking for a romantic, orientation-specific love song for your wedding or just for date night? Here's Bob Dylan's performance of "She's Funny That Way," revised to "He's Funny That Way." It's lovely! (and so are you!) open.spotify.com/track/2o8d8E...
Two weeks til TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND. Pre-order now and you'll get yours on pub day! (I'm pretty sure) @brucespringsteen.net @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Two weeks til TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND. Pre-order now and you'll get yours on pub day! (I'm pretty sure) @brucespringsteen.net @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND rolls into town in 2.5 weeks and the critics have already spoken! (Some of them, anyway) @brucespringsteen.net @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND rolls into town in 2.5 weeks and the critics have already spoken! (Some of them, anyway) @brucespringsteen.net @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
Interested in @brucespringsteen.net and BORN TO RUN? My new book TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND is coming Aug 5 and the book tour starts that same day! Here are dates on the west and east coasts!
July 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Interested in @brucespringsteen.net and BORN TO RUN? My new book TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND is coming Aug 5 and the book tour starts that same day! Here are dates on the west and east coasts!
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thinking about the part in one of his bios (either the autobio or the amazing @peteramescarlin.bsky.social one) where he talks about how dennis and carl went away, and he doesn't know where they went. and i keep thinking "now he knows"
June 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
thinking about the part in one of his bios (either the autobio or the amazing @peteramescarlin.bsky.social one) where he talks about how dennis and carl went away, and he doesn't know where they went. and i keep thinking "now he knows"
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Deeply recommend this by @peteramescarlin.bsky.social. Reverential and referential both but with lots of moments that will have you cackling. (“You’ll laugh, you’ll cry…”) What a life, what a man.
June 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Deeply recommend this by @peteramescarlin.bsky.social. Reverential and referential both but with lots of moments that will have you cackling. (“You’ll laugh, you’ll cry…”) What a life, what a man.
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The state Kristi Noem is from gets 40x as much representation in the United States Senate as the state Los Angeles is in. They take billions of dollars of tax money from our state every year. And yet it's not enough. They won't stop until they occupy our territory and destroy our freedom.
Kristi Noem on LA: "They're not a city of immigrants. They're a city of criminals."
June 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The state Kristi Noem is from gets 40x as much representation in the United States Senate as the state Los Angeles is in. They take billions of dollars of tax money from our state every year. And yet it's not enough. They won't stop until they occupy our territory and destroy our freedom.
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Our nonfiction list includes amazing work by Raxkingisdead.bsky.social, @peteramescarlin.bsky.social, @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social, @calfraser.bsky.social, @melissafebos.bsky.social, @hco96.bsky.social and others. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/30/arts/summer-2025-best-books-to-read/
75 new books to add to your summer reading list - The Boston Globe
Whether you’re looking for a romance novel to toss into your beach bag or something more mysterious to read on the lake house dock, this list of 75 books has something for every kind of reader.
www.bostonglobe.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Our nonfiction list includes amazing work by Raxkingisdead.bsky.social, @peteramescarlin.bsky.social, @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social, @calfraser.bsky.social, @melissafebos.bsky.social, @hco96.bsky.social and others. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/30/arts/summer-2025-best-books-to-read/
Kirkus just dropped its review of TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND and it came with a big star: “Born To Run was a triumph, installing Springsteen in rock’s canon, but this book thrives in exploring the hard work that preceded it. An admirably comprehensive study of a masterpiece and its creation.”
May 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Kirkus just dropped its review of TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND and it came with a big star: “Born To Run was a triumph, installing Springsteen in rock’s canon, but this book thrives in exploring the hard work that preceded it. An admirably comprehensive study of a masterpiece and its creation.”
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I GREATLY ENJOYED @peteramescarlin.bsky.social's amazing biography, The Name of This Band is R.E.M.
This is not just a MUST READ for R.E.M. fans but a captivating cultural history of late 20th century US. Also a good dive into Georgia and UGA history.
My recommendation on this #IndieBookStoreDay
This is not just a MUST READ for R.E.M. fans but a captivating cultural history of late 20th century US. Also a good dive into Georgia and UGA history.
My recommendation on this #IndieBookStoreDay
April 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I GREATLY ENJOYED @peteramescarlin.bsky.social's amazing biography, The Name of This Band is R.E.M.
This is not just a MUST READ for R.E.M. fans but a captivating cultural history of late 20th century US. Also a good dive into Georgia and UGA history.
My recommendation on this #IndieBookStoreDay
This is not just a MUST READ for R.E.M. fans but a captivating cultural history of late 20th century US. Also a good dive into Georgia and UGA history.
My recommendation on this #IndieBookStoreDay
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Did you know the Boss has never had a #1 hit...or has he? Listen to the Garage to Stadiums podcast Springsteen episode with our guest author @peteramescarlin.bsky.social on all major platforms or watch and subscribe on YouTube.
#Bruce
#BruceSprinsteen
#Bruce
#BruceSprinsteen
April 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Did you know the Boss has never had a #1 hit...or has he? Listen to the Garage to Stadiums podcast Springsteen episode with our guest author @peteramescarlin.bsky.social on all major platforms or watch and subscribe on YouTube.
#Bruce
#BruceSprinsteen
#Bruce
#BruceSprinsteen
Hey look you can get 25 percent off my new book TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND, about the making of @brucespringsteen.net's BORN TO RUN, but ya gotta act fast! Pre-order now! (if that works for you)
April 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Hey look you can get 25 percent off my new book TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND, about the making of @brucespringsteen.net's BORN TO RUN, but ya gotta act fast! Pre-order now! (if that works for you)
Friends: My website has been gussied up with news & info about TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND, my new book about the making of @officialbruce.bsky.social's BORN TO RUN. Stay tuned for updates about events, interviews and more! www.peteramescarlin.com
Peter Ames Carlin
www.peteramescarlin.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Friends: My website has been gussied up with news & info about TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND, my new book about the making of @officialbruce.bsky.social's BORN TO RUN. Stay tuned for updates about events, interviews and more! www.peteramescarlin.com
Hey can I fly Aer Lingus to Oral Roberts U? Asking for a friend. Who is a smirking child. And lives inside me. Thanks.
April 1, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Hey can I fly Aer Lingus to Oral Roberts U? Asking for a friend. Who is a smirking child. And lives inside me. Thanks.
Men of my generation: sorry about the hair loss (I know the feeling) but that tight white goatee isn’t the answer. Thanks.
March 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Men of my generation: sorry about the hair loss (I know the feeling) but that tight white goatee isn’t the answer. Thanks.