cover image Crooning: A Collection

Crooning: A Collection

John Gregory Dunne. Touchstone Books, $9.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-671-74031-3

Tough-minded journalist Dunne's studies of the casual violence found in L.A., the arrogance of the rich, famous and/or powerful, and the vulgarity of Hollywood are on-target here, but his essays on the art of writing are flawed by macho posturing. ``Though a fine writer, Dunne perhaps has taken his two-fisted persona as far as it can go,'' said PW. (June)