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Book review: Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001 - 2011, by Lizzy Goodman
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My last week was spent partying like a rockstar with my friends in a seaside mansion. Charmed life, right? Technically, we rented it for a work project, but since we spent days and nights blaring music, drinking champagne, and feeling like rockstars, the setting was appropriate for my latest read,
Book Review: Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991, by Michael Azerrad
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In 1991, Nirvana's Nevermind was released to glowing reviews and plenty of mainstream radio play, jumping to the number one spot on Billboard's album list. After a great Pixies show at the House of Blues in Boston a few weeks ago, I got thinking about how
Book Review: Men Without Women, by Haruki Murakami
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Few authors deftly create characters as deeply human and mesmerizingly real as Haruki Murakami. Whether sketching biographies of quake victims in After the Quake, or capturing the derailment of a man's life in Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, he is an undisputed master of his
Book Review: Beren and Lúthien, by J.R.R. Tolkien
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We live in exciting times. Ten years since the last J.R.R. Tolkien book was released (Children of Hurin [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618894640/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theident-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0618894640&linkId=
Book review: Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century, by Chuck Klosterman
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If you devoured a lot of pop culture over the last decade, you might wonder what Chuck Klosterman's latest volume, Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399184163/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&
Book review: Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court, by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Let me start off by saying that the entirety of my basketball knowledge comes from Space Jam [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000M0QMM8/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theident-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B000M0QMM8&linkId=cd45cd323e04bdf37966bd7b05cd1c9f] , so this
Book Review: Practicing New Historicism, by Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt
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Book reviewers read many things, some quite strange. Yesterday, for instance, I was forwarded a press release for the "must-read non-fiction children's book of the season" about bald eagles. Today, I read a new historicist's perspective on "The Potato in the Materialist Imagination&
Book Review: American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
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What happens when the idols are no longer active and the idol worshippers are all dead? This is the conversation while driving home from seeing The Pixies at The House of Blues in Boston. Take Bob Mould. He may still be an idol of 80s alternative rockers, but how much