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Easy Riders Raging Bulls
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Did you ever read that Peter Biscin book, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls?
Jason Calacanis · This Week in Startups · Oct 2026 Why people recommend it
Easy Riders Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind is a deeply reported and gossipy chronicle of the New Hollywood era, detailing the explosive, drug-fueled rise of the movie brats in the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Jason Calacanis recommended the book on This Week in Startups, asking if anyone had read Peter Biskind's work and emphasizing that it is an amazing read. Alexandra Jacobs also discussed the book on The Book Review during a segment on Hollywood histories, describing it as quite good and noting that it documents, with a lot of gossip, the transformative period when new filmmakers took over the American film industry. Both speakers highlighted the book's compelling, behind-the-scenes look at a tumultuous and creatively fertile era in cinema history, marking it as an essential text for anyone interested in the cultural and industrial shifts of Hollywood filmmaking.
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Jason Calacanis Did you ever read that Peter Biscin book, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls? 1
“Did you ever read that Peter Biscin book, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls?”
Alexandra Jacobs I like that's quite good easy writers Raging Bulls of course by Peter biscan which documents with a lot of… 1
“I like that's quite good easy writers Raging Bulls of course by Peter biscan which documents with a lot of Gossip sort of the period between the late' 60s and and early 80s when new Hollywood the movie brats sort of took over”
