We Are Alive
Bruce Springsteen at sixty-two.
"I looked at her and I said, 'I wanna be just . . . like . . . that,'" Springsteen recalls of watching Elvis on Ed Sullivan with his mother in 1957. Sixty-two now, he fills spiral notebooks with ideas, quotations, clippings—refusing to become a mercenary curator of his past, to be his own cover band.