Posted by s woods on November 30, 2009
“Author Jonathan Lethem has created a fictionalized Paul Nelson character in his new book Chronic City . And writer Kevin Avery has gone a step further, writing an actual biography. They both join [WNYC] to share the legend and tragedy of Paul Nelson.”
Good podcast – listen here .
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Posted by s woods on November 30, 2009
Rockcritics.com contributing editor, Steven Ward, chatted with me recently about a few of his favourite music books, including:
Kurt Loder’s Bat Chain Puller: Rock and Roll in the Age of Celebrity
Timothy White’s Rock Lives: Profiles and Interviews
Chuck Eddy’s Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe
Stephen Davis’s Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga
Mick Wall’s When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin
We also share thoughts on critics vs. journalists, Albert Goldman, Martin Popoff, James Wolcott, and current music mags. As well, Steven enthuses about his favourite non-music read of the last few years, Gwendolyn Bounds’s Little Chapel on the River: A Pub, a Town and the Search for What Matters Most .
Listen to a stream of our conversation below:
PART ONE:
PART TWO:
Or download the mp3s here .
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