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David Remnick • A Unified Field Theory of Bob Dylan
In John Carey’s brilliant book What Good are the Arts?, he demolishes, one by one, all the lessons and rules and theories that people have applied to culture and its significance – their attempts to ‘prove’, through science or logic or philosophy, that great art does this to you, and is better than not-great art because it has that. Ostensibly clev
... See moreNick Hornby • Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
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Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Nick Johnson • Creators, Communities, and the Gray Space in the Middle — Nichanan Kesonpat
Little Richard was one of very few singers who became more expressive with meaningless sounds and disconnected phrases and images than he was with properly constructed songs.
Charlie Gillett • The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock & Roll
That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned
... See moreSarah Perry • Enlightenment
The New Romantics
David Pennington • 9 cards