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Sometime in the autumn, we’ll be publishing a book called 33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume One. This will feature extracts from the first twenty books in the series (from Dusty to the Ramones), and should sell for around $15 in paperback. More details to follow… If you’re under 21 years of age, your writing could […]

Work continues apace (apace being a much nicer word than frantically) on our forthcoming Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, due to hit stores (as we say) on June 15th. I’m currently up to the letter C in my proofreading duties, and so far I’ve cried twice, laughed dozens of times, and have generally been bombarded by so

Last night we went to see Isobel Campbell play, at Southpaw in Brooklyn. After a charming and meta-derivative support set from The Essex Green, Isobel put on a surprisingly great show. For those of us who were used to seeing her sulk her way through old B&S concerts (and even her own Gentle Waves gigs),

For anyone coming to the series for the first time – welcome! Here’s a list of what’s been published so far, and what should be appearing in the coming months. 1. Dusty in Memphis, by Warren Zanes2. Forever Changes, by Andrew Hultkrans3. Harvest, by Sam Inglis4. The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, by

With the sudden rush of balmy spring here in New York, it feels positively Mediterranean outside today. And it was a pleasant suprise to get, in the mail, a handful of copies of our first Italian translations – of Steve Matteo’s Beatles book, and of John Cavanagh’s Pink Floyd book. I’m rather taken by the

If you (or someone you know and love) have ever thought about applying for a creative writing course, may I take a moment to recommend a particularly helpful little book we’ve just published? It’s called, with the kind of imagination that so many writers lack these days, The Creative Writing MFA Handbook: A Guide for

Those of you fortunate enough to live in Pasadena will have the chance, on the afternoon of Saturday March 25th, to see Kim Cooper read from her Neutral Milk Hotel book, and Ben Sisario read from his brand-new, about to be released, Pixies book. Venue: The excellent Vroman’s BookshopTime: 4pm, Sat March 25th Should be

Very exciting news: the following review of John Niven’s Music From Big Pink novella will appear in the New York Times Book Review on Sunday. The review is by Gary Kamiya, Executive Editor at salon.com. **************** “The Weight” This novella set in the 60s imagines life with the Band. Music From Big Pink: A NovellaBy

Friday evening was a bittersweet one for team Continuum. Several of us went to the ceremony for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, hoping for our man Jonathan Coe to pick up the prize for Biography of the Year. No such luck. The winning biography was this, about Robert Oppenheimer. The two authors had apparently

The new issue of Mojo has a 5-star review of John Niven’s Music From Big Pink: They’re a neat idea, Continuum’s mini-music monographs: writers expounding various half-baked theories on their all-time fave albums. However, there’s only so much studio apocrypha and weepy coming-of-age reminiscences you can take before screaming “No more!” Thankfully, John Niven has