In this week’s issue of The New York Times Book Review:

There’s a review of Slash’s…uh…Slash, which also is on the best sellers list for the 7th week in a row.

I did not know that Slash’s mom had also dated David Bowie. I guess Iman wasn’t Bowie’s first chocolate love.

Reviewer Alan Light does wonder idly why Slash doesn’t explore his working relationship with Axl Rose more in-depth, and also notes that the the book doesn’t mention the controversy about Axl using racist slurs in “One in a Million.”

There’s sordid exploration of Guns N’ Roses’ alcohol and drug use, of course. Light says this book and another one by Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx are “pretty much All Good Part.”

That’s good enough for me. It’s on my library request list. I’m hopeful that it’s as fun to read as Tommy Lee’s The Dirt.  

Black authors on the NYTBR’s various best sellers lists this week:

• Quiet Strength, Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker
• A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah
• Slash, Slash with Anthony Bozza
• The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
• The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (178 weeks!)
• Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama
• Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
• Living Well, Montel Williams with William Doyle