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The Critic As Memoirist
slate.com 3 weeks, 2 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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Thousands Follow Russian Writers In Protest Walk
latimes.com 1 week, 6 days agoThousands took to the streets of Moscow on Sunday to follow a handful of writers taking a "stroll" as a literal protest against efforts to thwart public gatherings. The poet Dmitry Bykov, detective novelist Boris Akunin, children's book writer Eduard Uspensky, bestselling author Lyudmila Ulitskaya and eight others had come up with the idea just four days before. The N.Y. Times reports : No one knew quite what to expect on Sunday. But when the 12 writers left Pushkin Square at lunchtime, they were trailed by
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