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Mikal Gilmore

Mikal Gilmore
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Mikal Gilmore

Mikal Gilmore is a journalist and music aficionado who has written for Rolling Stone magazine since the 1970s. His first book, Shot in the Heart, is a National Book Critics Circle and L.A. Times Book Prize-winning memoir about his older brother Gary, the first man to be executed in Utah after pleading guilty to murder.

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Stories Done will be released on July 14, 2009 in Trade Paperback
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Aviation International News, April 1, 2013
...reading matter on your trip, even if you’re headed around the world. 6. Shot in the Heart, by Mikal Gilmore. If ever there was a tale that showed how different siblings can be and how differently they can react to similar environments, it’s this...
Crime Magazine, February 18, 2013
...s capers, Walker probes the emotional minefield in which criminals' relatives must dwell. Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore. (Anchor, 2001): A tour de force by the younger brother of executed killer Gary Gilmore. Mikal, a first-rate writer, recalls a...
Capital Times, January 17, 2013
...chooses three nonfiction books that kept him engrossed from cover to cover. 1. “Shot in the Heart” by Mikal Gilmore (Anchor, 1995). Mikal Gilmore’s account of his brother — the infamous murderer Gary Gilmore — singlehandedly turned me into a...
I4U, September 14, 2012
...Volume One, is in the works. "Let's hope [it happens]," he tells Rolling Stone Contributing Editor Mikal Gilmore. "I'm always working on parts of it. B ... Full article at: Rolling Stone More like this 6 hours ago, 2:45pm CDT Update: 2 Source:...
Oregonian, September 14, 2012
...much, much more to one of the most revealing interviews of Dylan's 50-year career, brilliantly conducted by Mikal Gilmore, the former Portland resident and author of "Shot in the Heart" and "Night Beat." Rolling Stone only put a teaser on its website;...
TruTV.com, January 17, 2013
...he couldn't help himself. Gilmore's story is documented in a book written by his younger brother, Mikal Gilmore, called Shot in the Heart, and by Norman Mailer, who wrote a narrative nonfiction account, The Executioner's Song, in which he utilized...
Capital Times, January 17, 2013
...chooses three nonfiction books that kept him engrossed from cover to cover. 1. “Shot in the Heart” by Mikal Gilmore (Anchor, 1995). Mikal Gilmore’s account of his brother — the infamous murderer Gary Gilmore — singlehandedly turned me into a...
Orange County Register, January 8, 2013
...David Bowie 2013, beneath of a photo of his younger self beside William S. Burroughs. Photo: Jimmy King David Bowie has been in NYC seclusion for so long now that even the truest believers had reason to think he might never return for anything more than...
Orange County Register, January 8, 2013
...David Bowie 2013, beneath of a photo of his younger self beside William S. Burroughs. Photo: Jimmy King David Bowie has been in NYC seclusion for so long now that even the truest believers had reason to think he might never return for anything more than...
Orange County Register, January 8, 2013
...David Bowie 2013, beneath of a photo of his younger self beside William S. Burroughs. Photo: Jimmy King David Bowie has been in NYC seclusion for so long now that even the truest believers had reason to think he might never return for anything more than...
Onion AV Club, November 6, 2012
...got the chronology wrong, but as I recall, I bought the Doll’s House trade paperback thanks to Mikal Gilmore’s 1990 Rolling Stone article “Daredevil Authors: Today’s Real Superheroes,” and then started buying Sandman monthly right in the middle...
Tuscaloosa News, November 4, 2012
...it?s full of lies. I?ve begun to think Dylan is nuts, anyway. Just read that recent interview with Mikal Gilmore in Rolling Stone magazine. Dylan sounds out of his gourd. Or maybe he just wants everybody to think he?s nuts.There?s no such ambivalence...