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Chaya from Housing Works just dropped off some awesome posters for John Darnielle’s reading on Saturday. Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:00 PMJohn Darnielle of the Mountain Goats is working in a new genre. Tonight he’ll be reading from his brand new book, “his first novel and a stunning piece of rock criticism and appreciation” […]

Just a quick reminder that John Darnielle will be reading from his new book about Master of Reality on Saturday evening, at the Housing Works Used Books Cafe in New York City. Please do come along if you’re in town! Oh, and it kicks off at 7pm, so don’t be late…

Any of you in the Boston area might be interested in this benefit event, featuring two old-school 33 1/3 authors – Warren Zanes (author no.1 in the series) and Joe Pernice (author no.5). They’ll be joined – and possibly even upstaged – by superstar authors Michael Patrick MacDonald, George Pelecanos, and Tom Perrotta. There are

Hi there. I just wanted to take the time to point you toward a few links that are well worth checking out…* John Darnielle has begun his guest blogging stint over at the Powell’s blog. Do check it out here. You will be rewarded with metal. * I’ve been a fan of the blog 20

Popmatters just put up a really great interview with John Darnielle about working with kids in psych wards, his book on Black Sabbath, and metal in general. It’s really an excellent read… “But yeah—metal was a place young people went to feel like not everybody thought they were dumbasses, you know, where adults could look

By which I don’t mean Forever Changes (today’s Pitchfork review of the new, new reissue certainly resonates with Andrew Hultkrans’s book on the album for the series), but a little more Celine. There’s an excellent review of Carl’s book in the “Summer Reading” section of The Mac Weekly: MacAlester’s Independent Student Newspaper Since 1914, the

I’m very pleased to announce that Michael Gray’s wonderful Bob Dylan Encyclopedia was recently awarded the C.B. Oldman Prize by the International Association of Music Libraries. The prize is given “for an outstanding work of music bibliography, music reference or music librarianship by an author resident in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland.” The

Available and on sale now is volume number 56 in the series. The book is available from all the usual stores that carry the series, and from Amazon right here. In the meantime, here’s the back cover copy: *** Imagine that you are a man from space! And you don’t speak English and you never

David Smay’s Tom Waits entry in the series is thoughtfully reviewed by Eric Whelchel on Blogcritics today: “In many ways Smay’s book is actually a better study of Waits’ music and life than the few recent (and much longer) biographies. The major elements of Waits’ music, and how many of those elements originated with Swordfishtrombones,

Available and on sale now is volume number 55 in the series, which comes in a delicious shade of blue. The book is available from all the usual stores that carry the series, and from Amazon right here. In the meantime, here’s the back cover copy: That Patti Smith was operating in a different realm