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The Critic As Memoirist
slate.com 3 weeks, 4 days agoJonathan Lethem’s new book, Fear of Music , is a collection of 23 short essays about Talking Heads’ album of the same name . It’s essentially a work of music criticism, but David Byrne isn’t the only artist the book concerns itself with. Lethem repeatedly returns to a figure he refers to as “the boy in his bedroom.” The boy is Lethem himself, aged 15, listening to Fear of Music for the first time, shortly after its release in 1979. While it’s primarily a critical exploration of a single album, the book is a


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