Bumping Into Geniuses (2008)

In Bumping Into Geniuses Danny Goldberg chronicles the phases of his career — rock journalist, record-company president, manager to musicians ranging from Kurt Cobain to Warren Zevon — with the sort of candor few record-biz execs would attempt. He talks about the substance abuse problems of various clients, less for our morbid curiosity than to take some blame for not doing more to help artists who in most cases were also his friends. Admirably blunt, but also spiked with tart humor. A–