?The Bad Editor: Collected Columns and Untold Tales of Bad Behavior? | A Biased Book Review
We all fight a battle between our opposites selves, between good and evil, between our inner demon and our inner angel. No one is all good or all bad. It?s the vast area in the middle where things get interesting.
When it came to reviewing Peter Jones? new book, ?The Bad Editor: Collected Columns and Untold Tales of Bad Behavior,? I knew I would be biased. I know Peter. I like Peter. We?ve shared lots of laughs and drinks over the years at motorcycle press launches. When I took over as editor-in-chief of Rider, Peter reached out to me and offered to help. Now he writes a monthly column in Rider called ?The Moto Life.?
So I asked Denis Rouse, Rider?s founding publisher and a guy who loves reading as much as he loves riding, to review Peter?s book. Denis doesn?t know Peter. Denis is unfiltered and likes controversy. He?s also been in the trenches of the motorcycle industry. Who better to review a book called ?The Bad Editor?"
But after reading the review Denis sent me, I knew we needed to zoom out, to take a wider view.
We need interesting people in this world to save us from the khaki-slacks and white-Camry dullness that will swallow us whole if we don?t pry open its jaws and kick out its teeth. Interesting people are complicated. As Whitman would say, they contradict themselves, they are vast and contain multitudes.
Peter Jones with his 2006 Suzuki GSX-R1000 Bob-Job.
Peter is interesting. He has a degree in fine arts and used to work in a museum. ...
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