901 David Wild, Rolling Stone magazine writer, author, "Neil Diamond: He Is... I Say"

Published: Aug. 13, 2018, 6:12 p.m.

Rolling Stone writer David Wild has harbored a secret man crush for decades. Today, he will come out of the closet and fess up: He’s in love with Neil Diamond. Wild testifies to this forbidden love in a new sort-of biography, He Is… I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond, which is, at times, as much about Wild as it is about Diamond. In fact, on the day of the book’s publication, Oct. 19, 2008, David blogged on The Huffington Post an essay titled, And strangely, the Dow rose that day. David Wild • • •