‘Poetic musings on a life well-lived-one that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isn’t your typical autobiography. Garfunkel’s history is informed in moving prose, bounding from show past, far from a linear rags-to-riches story.’

-Bookreporter

‘It’s hard to imagine any single phrase that could accurately explain this publication . an entertaining volume that’s more pleasurable to read than a conventional memoir might have been.’

-The Wall Street Journal

about What COULD IT BE All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Guy

‘A charming book of prose and poetry imprinted within a digitalized version of his handwriting . . . witty, candid, and wildly imaginative . . . A highly intelligent man attempting to make sense of his outstanding life.’

-Associated Press

In the golden-haired, curly-headed half of Simon & Garfunkel, a memoir (of sorts)-moving, lyrical impressions, interspersed within a narrative, punctuated by poetry, musings, lists of resonant books loved and admired, uncovering a life as well as the making of the musician, that show us, as well, the evolution of a man, a portrait of a life-long friendship and of a collaboration that became one of the most successful singing duo in the roiling age that embraced, and was defined by, their pathfinding folk-rock music.

In THE FACTS All but Luminous, Art Garfunkel creates about developing up in the 1940s and ‘50s (child of a journeying salesman, listening as his dad played Enrico Caruso records), a middle-class Jewish youngster, living in a redbrick semi-attached house on Jewel Avenue in Kew Landscapes, Queens.

He writes of conference Paul Simon, a child who made Artwork laugh (they fulfilled at their graduation play, Alice in Wonderland; Paul was the White Rabbit; Artwork, the Cheshire Kitty). Of their becoming twelve on the birth of rock’n’roll (“it was tempo and blues. It was black. I used to be captured and so was Paul”), of the demo of their song, Hey Schoolgirl for seven dollars and the real record (with Paul’s father on bass) likely to #40 for the charts.

He writes about their getting Simon & Garfunkel, ruling the pop charts from the age of sixteen, about not being a natural performer but even more a thinker, an underground guy.

He writes from the strike music; touring; about being an actor dealing with directors Mike Nichols (“the best of them all”), about selecting music more than a PhD in mathematics.

And he writes about his long-unfolding split with Paul, and how and just why it progressed, and after; learning to perform on his own . . . and about being a hubby, a father plus much more.