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Book Review: Josh Ritter, “Bright’s Passage”

Andrew Berne July 14, 2011 1

I must admit a few things before I begin: First, this is the only book review I have ever written. I’ve written reviews of concerts and albums, but it’s been said that writing about

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Book Review: Scott Miller, “Music: What Happened?”

Jeff Giles February 2, 2011 1

Like many of you, I’ve always been a sucker for books about rock music, either about the music itself (e.g. Paul Zollo’s Songwriters on Songwriting and Jimmy Guterman and Owen O’Donnell’s classic The Worst

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Book Review: “Russell Wiley Is Out to Lunch”

Jeff Giles October 6, 2010 0

There’s really nothing all that amusing about the newspaper industry’s death spiral, but that hasn’t stopped Richard Hine from using it as the backdrop for Russell Wiley Is Out to Lunch, a frequently funny

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Book Review: Todd Oldham, “Joan Jett”

Kathleen Warnock May 25, 2010 0

Playwright, editor and hardcore "Jetthead" Kathleen Warnock gives us an in-depth review of Todd Oldham's new book chronicling the life and times of Joan Jett

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Book Review: Charles Schulz, “The Complete Peanuts: 1973 to 1974″

Dw. Dunphy January 6, 2010 4

I am a bald, neurotic person with poor social skills and an equally dismal amount of self-esteem. It is only logical that I see so much of myself in the character of Charlie Brown.

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Book Review: “And Another Thing…The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy part Six”

Dw. Dunphy January 4, 2010 10

When last we left Arthur Dent, he had arrived on planet Earth once again, now fully aware not only of Magrathea’s planet-building capacities but of multiple dimensions with multiple Earths. Surely he could settle

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Book Review: Lee Eisenberg, “Shoptimism”

Ann Logue December 17, 2009 2

Lee Eisenberg likes to shop. He also has a lot of perspective on how people sell and how people buy. He was the editor in chief of Esquire for many years, telling men what

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Book Review: “Bowie: A Biography”

Mojo Flucke December 2, 2009 8

Being a Bowie fan is one thing; being a fan of Bowie books can be an altogether separate fetish. There’s such a wide variety of tomes about the wispy art-rocker from Brixton—and so much

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Book Review: Matt Springer, “Unconventional”

Jeff Giles September 23, 2009 7

See, now this is what Fanboys wanted to be. The debut novel (or novella, as somewhat grumpily conceded in the Author’s Note) from AlertNerd‘s Matt Springer, Unconventional is, according to the front cover’s helpful

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Book Review: Michael Lang (with Holly George-Warren), “The Road To Woodstock”

Ken Shane September 4, 2009 1

When it comes to telling the true story of Woodstock, more properly known as “An Aquarian Exposition: The Woodstock Music and Art Fair,” it’s hard to imagine anyone better suited for the role than

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