Short Takes

By Jesse Kornbluth
Published: Jul 24, 2010

It’s like a low-tech app, a “m-book,” if you will. As you’re reading Sheila Weller’s beach-book-and-then-some, Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon -- and the Journey of a Generation, you can go to a web site and listen to the songs that made them want to write, as well as the songs they wrote and recorded. With the occasional video and back story.