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	Amazon.com: Shot in the Heart: Books: Mikal Gilmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mikal Gilmore is a Rolling Stone writer and the youngest brother of murderer Gary Gilmore, who became, in 1977, the first person to be executed in the United States after a 10-year hiatus, a case which was subsequently recounted in Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song.
		This brave and eloquent book is the story that only Mikal Gilmore knows: the violence in multiple generations of his family, what the Gilmore house was like as he was growing up, his relationship with his brother, and his experience of the dramatic events surrounding Gary Gilmore's determination to be executed as planned, without appeal.
		So scarred was Mikal when he wrote the book that he had decided that not having children of his own was the only way to be sure that that he himself would not perpetrate the same violence against another generation.
	www.amazon.com /Shot-Heart-Mikal-Gilmore/dp/0385478003 (1605 words)

	Books at Book Clubs \| Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
		Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Executioner's Song, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing squad in 1977.
		Mikal, burdened with the guilt of being his father's favorite and the shame of being Gary's brother, gracefully and painfully relates a murder tale "from inside the house where murder is born...
		The Gilmore children grew up hearing family secrets and stories, from the abandonment of their father by Houdini to the dramatic tale of a public hanging witnessed by their mother as a young girl.
	www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0385478003&view=rg (688 words)

	Night Beat - MIKAL GILMORE - Mobipocket eBooks
		Beginning with Elvis and the birth of rock and roll, Gilmore traces the seismic changes in America as its youth responded to the postwar economic and political climate.
		He hears in the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison the voices of unrest and fervor, and charts the rise and fall of punk in brilliant essays on Lou Reed, The Sex Pistols, and The Clash.
		Mikal Gilmore describes Bruce Springsteen's America and the problem of Michael Jackson.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/92316-ebook.htm (521 words)

	Head Butler - Books
		This one is the brother of Mikal Gilmore, who grew up in the same household, took another path, and, somehow became a gifted writer, mostly for Rolling Stone.
		Mikal Gilmore looks for the decisive moment and finds, instead, links in a chain.
		The night Gary was arrested, Mikal reminds him, he was on his way to the airport.
	www.headbutler.com /archives/mikal_gilmore.asp (656 words)

	Shot in the Heart
		Mikal Gilmore is the youngest brother of Gary Gilmore, executed at his own urging for the murder of two innocent men.
		But the true story of Gary Gilmore lies in the story of his family, a painful and difficult one that has taken Mikal Gilmore many years to face.
		In an eloquent, mesmerizing voice, Mikal Gilmore guides us through generations of his family's history to uncover the sources that led Gary Gilmore to murder, and the crippling aftermath of Gary's deeds on his family.
	www.markuszusak.com /vintage/read/shotintheheart (691 words)

	eye - BOOKS: Shot in the Heart -- Mikal Gilmore - 08.18.94 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Famed murderer Gary Gilmore's death-wish in the late '70s -- immortalized in Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song and The Adverts' single "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" -- choked the American consciousness and became a pock on that country's history.
		Mikal takes this notion and places great importance on being earnest, and offers some brutal background notes on life with father et al., and how it shaped his brother's fate.
		Mikal begins by decoding the tormented and hyperbolic family mythology the Gilmore boys (there are four in total) grew up with.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_08.18.94/ARTS/bo0818c.htm (366 words)

	Amazon.ca: Shot in the Heart: Books: Mikal Gilmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mikal Gilmore is a wonderful writer -- and to this day, my favorite author.
		Mikal opens a pandoras box as he goes back to that time to talk about the murders,and his visits with Gary on death row.
		Mikal Gilmore survived his family, and what an incredible tale he has to tell about it.
	www.amazon.ca /Shot-Heart-Mikal-Gilmore/dp/555711887X (913 words)

	Bookreporter.com - NIGHT BEAT by Mikal Gilmore
		NIGHT BEAT, A Shadow History of Rock and Roll, by Mikal Gilmore, is the collected writings of the award-winning author and rock critic.
		Gilmore feels it is each generation’s duty to embrace musical forms that parents find repulsive and shocking.
		Whether one agrees with all of Gilmore’s conclusions or not, the thought and eloquence with which he writes makes his a voice worth hearing.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0385484364.asp (292 words)

	Powell's Books - Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mikal Gilmore's family history is a ghost that lingers long after you close the cover.
		In 1977 Gary Gilmore, the convicted murderer of two young Mormons, was executed by firing squad.
		Years later Gilmore's youngest brother, Mikal, recalls the visits he made to Gary in the days before his execution (the only significant time they spent with each other in their lives) and re-creates the history of an American family inextricably tied up with violence.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=2-0385478003-6 (522 words)

	Gilmore Gun Book
		House rented by Nicole and Gilmore in Spanish Fork, Ut.
		The Gary Gilmore story was told in the book "The Executioner's Song" by Norman Mailer winning a Pulitzer prize.
		Book "Shot in the Heart" by Mikal Gilmore also dramatized in a movie
	www.gilmoregun.com /page2.html (436 words)

	Shot in the Heart - One Family's History in Murder - Mikal Gilmore
		Mikal Gilmore comes from an extraordinary family, a family haunted by death, brooding on violence and fixated by its own legends.
		His brother was the murderer, Gary Gilmore, shot to death by a firing squad in Utah in 1977 and the subject of Norman Mailer's subsequent novel and film, ''The Executioner's Song''.
		By then his eldest brother had already died of alcoholism and stab wounds and the third brother was to disappear over the horizon, his fate unknown.
	www.williamglynn.co.uk /si/001273.html (117 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| SHOT IN THE HEART by Mikal Gilmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mormonism is the predominant religion originating in America, and is among the fastest growing religions in the world.
		Gary Gilmore was first incarcerated at age fourteen.
		Frank and Gary Gilmore were only a year apart in age yet Gary spent most of his life in prison and became a vicious murderer, while Frank went to prison as a conscientious objector who refused to even pick up a gun.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/shot_in_the_heart.asp (701 words)

	Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gilmore manages to describe his horrific childhood without bitterness, a feat that alone elevates the book to greatness.
		Shot in The Heart is a story written by the brother of Gary Gilmore, a man convicted of murder and executed in Salt Lake City.
		Gilmore brings an exceptional dignity to the telling of this interesting and compelling story and manages to extend love in an unfamiliar place.
	www.book-summary-review.com /Shot-in-the-Heart-555711887X.htm (668 words)

	Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore: Book reviews, book club recommendations and recipes!
		The brother of Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized in Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song, tells the stunning story of their wildly dysfunctional family--a family destroyed by a multigenerational history of child abuse, alcoholism, crime, adultery, and murder.
		Gary flatly refused to discuss the secrets of his childhood, and when his mother, Bessie, was asked about the family's past, she answered in maddening and evasive riddles.
		Mikal realized he had not escaped his family's ruin after all, and that the only way to do so, to bring an end to the horrible legacy, would be to go back into the family history and, finally, crack open its god-awful secrets.
	www.wutheringbites.com /Read/bookpage2.asp?BookID=83 (948 words)

	Salon \| Sharps and Flats: Death and Violence in Rock 'n' Roll
		Unlike many of his contemporaries, Gilmore doesn't lament that rock 'n' roll has seen its best days: "I am thankful that I was allowed to come of age in an historical moment -- that is, to 'grow up' -- when rock 'n' roll made some bold and upsetting advances," he writes in his introduction.
		Those familiar with "Shot in the Heart," Gilmore's moving memoir about his family's violent history and the eventual execution of his brother, convicted serial killer Gary Gilmore, might assume that a collection of musings about music and culture would make for considerably lighter reading.
		But perhaps more important, Gilmore's book stands as a reminder that there was a time when talking about how the Beatles' appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on Feb. 9, 1964, "changed my life, man" wasn't a cliché -- it was simply true.
	archive.salon.com /music/int/1998/03/19int.html (577 words)

	Powell's Books - Night Beat by Mikal Gilmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Beginning with Elvis and the birth of rock and roll, Gilmore traces the seismic changes in America as rock evolved from fad to phenomenon.
		He hears in the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison the voices of unrest and fervor, and follows the rise and fall of punk in brilliant essays on Lou Reed, The Sex Pistols, and The Clash.
		Gilmore shows readers late twentieth-century life through the inimitable lens of rock and roll, proving his stature as one of the most committed chroniclers of American music, and its powerful expressions of love, soul, politics, and redemption.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=92-0385500297-0 (399 words)

	Books@Random \| Shot in the Heart: Readers' Group Companion
		I told myself I didn't have to be shaped by it, I didn't have to be known as Gary Gilmore's brother.
		This is why the world we live in is not a safe world: it is because the violence in our homes has not only gone on too long, it has been too protected, and it is still largely unexamined.
		When we look at violence in our society, and read the cover stories on all the weekly news magazines, that is virtually all the violence that is talked about: the violence of the dangerous streets, the violence of the stranger who will walk into your life and rob you or shoot you or devastate you.
	www.markuszusak.com /resources/bookgroup/shotheart_bgc.html (1483 words)

	Night Beat - Mikal Gilmore - Palm Reader eBooks
		Few journalists have staked a territory as unforgettably as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career writing about rock and roll.
		Gilmore traces the seismic changes in America as rock evolved from fad to phenomenon, hearing in the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison the voices of unrest and fervor, and following the rise and fall of punk in brilliant essays on Lou Reed, The Sex Pistols, and The Clash.
		From Presley to punk, from Miles Davis to Tupac Shakur, Gilmore shows readers late twentieth-century life through the inimitable lens of rock & roll, and its powerful expressions of love, soul, politics and redemption.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/127093-ebook.htm (515 words)

	Books : Night Beat a Shadow History of Rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sharps and Flats: Death and Violence in Rock 'n' RollCynthia Joyce interviews Mikal Gilmore on his new book 'Night Beat: A Shadow History of Rock 'n' Roll,' the golden age of old rock stars and rock's redemptive force in American culture.
		Gilmore probes the dark side of rock history with a searing passion...
		NIGHT BEAT, A Shadow History of Rock and Roll, by Mikal Gilmore, is the collected writings of...
	best-review.com /products3-0330368907-AsinSearch-us.htm (507 words)

	Powell's Books - Night Beat: A Shadow of Rock & Roll by Mikal Gilmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"There is such an openness and generosity of spirit in Mikal Gilmore's sensibility that the only question is whether his writing can live up to it.
		"Mikal Gilmore understands the soul of rock and roll artists.
		Mikal Gilmore has covered and criticized rock and roll, its culture, and related issues for many national publications.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0385484364-6 (469 words)

	Robert Christgau: Mikal Gilmore's "Night Beat" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		All we need know about Mikal Gilmore's Night Beat (Doubleday, 461 pp.) is that there are too many rock books and not enough books of rock journalism, which is where the best rock writing occurs--where editors know the subject and writers earn a decent word rate.
		Sure most of it is disposable, but not when the scribe at hand is as serious, knowledgeable, and passionate as Mikal Gilmore, who after collecting essays about some 45 musicians apologizes by listing 210 he omitted, from Aphex Twin to Helen Humes.
		Which isn't to say I don't look forward to a Dylan book that delves further into the dark-side secrets he often adduces without exploring in his deadline work--or a Sinatra book either.
	www.robertchristgau.com /xg/bkrev/rbgilmor-98.php (173 words)

	A free termpaper and essay on mikal gilmore's dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mikal Gilmore describes Salt Lake as “a dead-end American town, pinioned between the night-lights and smoking chimneys of towering industrial factories”.
		Crammed between a vast forest and an industrial monster, Mikal is trapped by forces threatening him with a boring existence, life in town.
		The train tracks lining the edge of the forest are like shiny silver teeth reflecting the moonlight, grinning at him with evil intent.
	www.f-school.com /viewpaper/28099.html (193 words)

	Shot in the Heart
		The author’s struggle is to set himself apart from the lurid true-crime fraternity of his father and brothers yet remain able to understand why he feels both guilty and lonely over his exclusion from his family’s violent history.
		When I bought this book I was at an age where I had no time to think about others, only myself, plus I was never much of a reader.
		Mikal opens a pandoras box as he goes back to that time to talk about the murders,& his visits with Gary on death row.
	book.awardannals.com /detail/0385422938 (701 words)

	Price Comparison for Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore - Audiobook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sneak Peeks By Publisher: A-E - By Mikal Gilmore (Nonfiction) Dutton, Reviewed by Beth Wolfensberger Singer Deeply personal essays about rock music, from the Rolling Stone writer and author of the memoir andquot;Shot In the Heart.andquot; (02/06/98).
		Introduced as a child to the genius Read More Shot in the Heart Written by Mikal Gilmore Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The.
		RollingStone.com: The Doors : The Unforgettable Fire : News - all their secrets By MIKAL GILMORE In the strange, wondrous year that was the apparent victim of heart failure and of personal and Luther King Jr.
	audiobooks.fmpasap.com /audiobooks/shot-in-the-heart.7929.html (439 words)

	Bookreporter.com - SHOT IN THE HEART by Mikal Gilmore
		Everyone thinks he (or she) knows all about Gary Gilmore because Norman Mailer wrote a thick book about him.
		But his brother Mikal had almost nothing to do with that book.
		This is one of those books that sticks with you --- a great wrenching cry of a book that changes the way you think about everything.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0385478003.asp (139 words)

	bookblog: Shot In the Heart by Mikal Gilmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tracy on Shot In the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
		Family memoir by the brother of executed murderer Gary Gilmore.
		Mikal Gilmore's pain about his devastated family practically bleeds on every page.
	lendmesomesugar.blogs.com /bookblog/2004/03/shot_in_the_hea.html (218 words)

	Mikal Gilmore: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Mikal Gilmore: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more
		Mikal Gilmore: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more
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	music.com /person/mikal_gilmore/1 (93 words)

	Buy.com - Night Beat: A Shadow History of Rock & Roll : Mikal Gilmore : ISBN 0385484364
		A definitive collection of profiles, cultural commentary, and reviews from a 20-year career in rock criticism, by the author of "Shot in the Heart".
		Former ROLLING STONE reporter Mikal Gilmore offers his collection of essays and band interviews that cover twenty years of American rock and roll history.
		Discussions include: "The Problem with Michael Jackson," "Van Halen: The Endless Party," and "Sinead O'Connor's Songs of Experience." The final chapter is devoted to the late Kurt Cobain and inspired by a meditative visit Gilmore made to Cobain's hometown after the musician's death.
	www.buy.com /prod/Night_Beat_A_Shadow_History_of_Rock_Roll/q/loc/106/30412287.html (361 words)

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