The band — which played sporadic reunion shows, with Wolf, between 1999 and 2015 — serves as a through-line for “Waiting on the Moon” as the singer recounts his assorted adventures.

Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses, by Peter Wolf (Little-Brown, 335 pp., $30). In his elegant memoir of postwar Greenwich Village life, When Kafka Was the Rage, ...

Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses by Peter Wolf is out now. MT: Ha! Well, gibberish is my native tongue.

Nat Cassidy's wildly entertaining novel is a superb example of how to work with clichés. When the Wolf Comes Home might sound like a werewolf novel — but it's an entirely different animal.

The artist seems to vacation in a new destination every couple of months, and her most recent destination was a getaway to the Alps with her husband, Maximillion Cooper, and son, Wilde Wolf.