Tag: featured
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Scenes from a book party
Book party. Book party. Book party. So, book parties are fun. Thank you to everyone who came out to Mississippi Pizza last night, and sorry to those who couldn’t get in because it was packed. Like, unexpectedly packed. It was nice. It was a lot of fun. As I said on Facebook and Twitter, for…
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Thanks
If I’m up early enough, I can stand in my garage and watch the sun rise over Mt. Hood’s peak. I don’t like to be up early enough for that, but sometimes I am. It was a hell of a sunrise this morning, pink and orange and the mountain blue and hazy as the future.…
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Book news, by the numbers (Or: Talk, Talk, Talk, etc.)
BOOK PARTY: Still Oct. 12 at 6 p.m. at Mississippi Pizza. Jim Brunberg, Casey Neill, Sarah Gwen and Mark Orton, and Rebecca Gates will still be joining me. It will still be fun. NEW: Jim’s band, A Year Afar, will take the stage at 9 p.m. for anyone who wants to hang out and enjoy…
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Springsteen: Album By Album (The Book Party)
Join me and Rebecca Gates, Jim Brunberg, Casey Neill, and Sarah Gwen and Mark Orton on Oct. 12. It’ll be fun.
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Happy Birthday, Bruce
Last night, I was finishing Steve Almond’s jarring rant Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto, when I stopped at this: “Maybe D.H. Lawrence was right. Maybe the essential American soul is “hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.” Maybe he was. He probably was, and if he was, he still is. Today is Bruce Springsteen’s 65th birthday, and…
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Down in a ‘Dead Man’s Town’
I got to know this guy working on Springsteen: Album By Album. Sort of. We didn’t meet. Rufus “Tee-Tot” Payne has been dead a long time. He grew up in New Orleans in the late 19th century and the nickname comes from the cocktail of tea and homemade whiskey he’d carry in a flask. I wish I’d met…
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Maybe we ain’t that young anymore
‘I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.’ Amusingly, one of the most famous lines in the history of rock criticism — a line written about Bruce Springsteen by Jon Landau, who would become Bruce Springsteen’s manager — is misquoted on Bruce Springsteen’s website. “I have seen the future of rock…
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If You Take a 4 year old to see Lucinda Williams at the zoo
If you take a 4 year old to see Lucinda Williams at the zoo, she’s going to want to see the animals first. When you take her to see the animals, she’s going to decide that, no, she wants dinner first. After she eats, she’s going to need to go the bathroom. When you take her…
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Most of the album is just a lot of fun: ‘Born in the USA’ turns 30
Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA was released 30 years ago today. As someone who has written a book about Springsteen’s work, a book that will be out in October and is available for pre-order now, it is my duty to tell you about the album from the perspective of my book that is available for…
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