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Wednesday, June 6th at 7:00pm Back Pages Books presents A BOOK, A BAND, A BREW Featuring Jonathan Lethem reading from his 33 1/3 volume on Talking Heads Fear of Music (book) Winterpills playing a selection of Talking Heads cover songs (band) Watch City Brewery beers (brew) WATCH CITY BREWERY256 MOODY STREETWALTHAM, MA 02453 Tickets are […]
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So – these 471 proposals are taking a little more time than I originally thought. There is a lot of very, very promising material here and there’s a hell of a lot of work that’s gone into most of these. I’m about halfway through so far. Let’s say that we’ll post the “Long List” on
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If you’ve purchased a copy of Geeta Dayal’s book on Another Green World from Amazon.com and they’ve sent you one of their wrongly printed, wrongly formatted, oversized editions of the book, please send it to us here at Continuum/Bloomsbury in NYC and we’ll replace that copy, free of charge, with a correct edition. (And if
OK, well that went a little crazy in the last few hours – I thought we’d end up with around 250 proposals but it’s 471, if my counting is correct. (Down on how many we received last time, but considering how much work we were asking you to put into these, this time around, it’s
A long–and fascinating–review of the Jonathan Lethem 33 1/3 (with a discussion on the dying forms of books and LPs) appeared yesterday on the Los Angeles Review of Books website. AND, the LARB also ran an hour long audio interview of Lethem by Andy Zax over the weekend as well. More info on the recently
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As of RIGHT NOW, the window for proposals has closed firmly shut. Once we’ve managed to shovel through it all, we’ll post here a list of all the albums for which we received proposals. If you submitted, and received an autoreply from the gmail account, you have nothing to worry about. (Well, aside from the
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“This ain’t no party/ This ain’t no disco/ This ain’t no foolin’ around. No, this is music criticism, and in the right hands it’s serious business. The latest installment in the addictive 33 1/3 line of music books—each of which pairs an author with an iconic pop album—finds novelist Jonathan Lethem in deep consultation with
1. At The Daily Beast, Brian Gresko interviews Jonathan Lethem about his 33 1/3 on Talking Heads Fear of Music: Lethem analyzes each of the songs in his book, alternating between close readings of lyrics, song structure, and meditations on the album as a whole. “Cities” is imagined as a “metropolis on wheels,” “Memories Can’t
Sunday, April 29 5:00pmSkylight Books1818 N. Vermont Ave.Los Angeles, CA 90027 With the band Big Mess playing some Talking Heads classics live on stage. This is the last west coast event scheduled with Jonathan for his Talking Heads 33 1/3. He will also be reading in Waltham, Mass in early June. More on that here.
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