Articles written by authors, guests and the 33 1/3 team.
Hugo Wilcken, author of the David Bowie book in our series, has just had his second novel published in the UK, by HarperCollins. You can buy a copy from Amazon.co.uk here – I’ll be buying my copy when I’m over in the UK next week. American rights to the novel are still available, so if […]
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For those of you in the Bay Area, this coming Sunday brings a trio of wonderful 33 1/3 authors to Pegasus Books on Shattuck Ave. Starting at 7.30pm, please go and listen to: Shawn Taylor reading from his Tribe Called Quest book; Douglas Wolk reading from his James Brown book; and Kate Schatz reading from
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Kate Schatz will also be reading this Thursday 8/16 at 7:30pm at Modern Times Bookstore in San Francisco with The Revisionist author (and fellow encyclopedist) Miranda Mellis. It is part of the Ecstatic Monkey reading series.
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From p.297 of this book (which you absolutely must read – it’s wonderful): He shrieked, but it didn’t stop the beating; he begged, and that didn’t stop it, either; he blacked out, but that was no relief; the niggers kicked him in the nuts and that perked him right up! He tried to drag himself
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In memory of Tony Wilson – quite possibly a cantankerous prick and yet a man for whose existence we should all be eternally grateful – (also, Martin Hannett) here’s an extract from Chris Ott’s book on Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division, which was part of the second batch published in the series, back in January
It’s easy to get nostalgic when you’re 37. I remember a more innocent time, when the Jam going straight in at Number One on the singles chart was almost a national event; when the strike force of Cottee and McAvennie were tearing up Division One for the Hammers, and when you couldn’t get the ad
Kevin Courrier, the author of the 33 1/3 on Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica, will be interviewed by host David Dye on NPR’s World Cafe on Thursday, August 23rd. To see if you can listen live through old fashioned radio waves, there is a list of stations here, or you can listen online to the
We got the manuscript this week for Amanda Petrusich’s forthcoming book about Nick Drake’s Pink Moon album. The book covers a lot of ground – Drake’s early career; the recording, release, and failure of the album itself, and the record’s new life on the back of a VW car ad in 2000. That’s where this
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This weekend’s Los Angeles Times Book Review includes the following piece on Kate Schatz’s PJ Harvey-inspired volume in the series: *** BOOK REVIEW‘Rid of Me’ by Kate SchatzTwo women fleeing oppression find they can’t escape.By Karrie Higgins July 29, 2007 Kate Schatz wrote “Rid of Me” for Continuum Press’ “33 1/3 ” series, short books
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I was interviewed yesterday evening by Geoffray Barbier of Cold Cuts Productions, who’s making a documentary film about the Fleshtones. It was a little odd, being asked to explain just why I wanted to publish our forthcoming Fleshtones book so much, but with any luck I managed to convey my enthusiasm for the project without
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