Remembering John Lennon through his letters (and postcards)

The night John Lennon died, I was at a Bruce Springsteen show in Philadelphia. The next evening, Springsteen would open with a cover of “Twist and Shout,” but on that fateful night, in the  pre-cellphone, pre-Internet era, my friends and I spent the moment of Lennon’s murder blissfully oblivious — until we came out after the concert to find the news burning through the parking lot like a grass fire.

By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic

December 7, 2012