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Sep 16 2020
Rock & Roll Library: My 2020 Summer Reading List
While my life suddenly got deconstructed during the ongoing pandemic, I tried to ignore the madness of the outside world by finally finding the time to read a stack of rock & roll books that I had on…
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Sep 3 2019
Rock & Roll Library: Great Jones Street - Don DiLillo (1973)
"Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the somber renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings. I mean long journeys across gray space. I mean danger, the edge of every void…
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Jul 23 2019
Rock & Roll Library: Glimpses - Lewis Shiner (Wm. Morrow & Co. 1993)
When I first read this Lewis Shiner novel 12 years ago, I was impressed by Shiner's ability to capture a certain sensibility that existed in the pre-corporate rock & roll era. Back then, it seemed like it was all…
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Jan 29 2019
Rock & Roll Library: My 2018 Rock & Roll Reading List
Throughout any given year, I always read an inordinate amount of rock & roll books. It's a habit I fell into back in my high school days. Whenever I hear about a new rock & roll book that is coming…
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