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We always love to see our books in the classroom, so today, we are bringing you two excerpts from 33 1/3 reviews written by the students in Samantha Bennett’s undergraduate class at ANU. Do you teach 33 1/3s as well? We’d love to hear about it! Samantha Bennett is a senior lecturer in the School of Music at the Australian National University. I met Samantha at a conference in Ireland last month where she told me her undergraduate students in a course called Popular Music: In Culture and in Context had…

Read our Q&A with Rebecca Wallwork, soon-to-be author of the new 33 1/3 on the New Kids on the Block’s Hangin’ Tough! Tell us a bit about yourself in an extended author biography. I’m a writer, editor and content director (mostly for travel brands). These days I specialize in digital content but I have a long history in magazines, ever since my first internship at Interview magazine, where I later became the music editor—during a great time to be one; when watching Kings of Leon, The Strokes and the Yeah Yeah…

Over the summer I had the pleasure of reading John Darnielle’s new novel Wolf in White Van. It’s a dark story of a man whose life is ruined by a self-inflicted gun shot wound that leaves him horribly disfigured instead of dead. But this character, Sean, is sympathetic. He is lonely and self-aware and the hours he spends alone in his small suburban house are spent concocting an elaborate mail-order choose your own adventure game that he runs through ads placed in obscure magazines. Sean’s game is called Trace Italian…

In the final installment of Greg Hainge‘s search to answer the question, “What is noise?” we have a response from scholar and author, Kane X. Faucher. ———————————————— Kane X. Faucher: scholar and author of numerous publications including The Infinite Library. In preparation, a book on the metastability and metastasis of information through a Simondon-Deleuze lens, and another on “datapolitik.” Allow me to make some noise, and grasp about for a good handhold that will permit me to speak on the nature of noise in the ontological sense. I promise nothing…