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Da Capo Best Music Writing
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002
It's the third and latest volume in the series that you have come to rely upon for your music-reading fix. The 2002 volume will celebrate the year's best writing about music and its culture, as selected by Jonathan Lethem, best-selling novelist, music hound, and self-confessed closet rock-writer. With pieces on a dazzling array of topics from more than a hundred sources, the collection brings you remarkable essays by journalists and authors who are as serious about writing as they are about music. It's required reading for anyone who loves either art. Past contributors have David Rakoff Mike Doughty Lorraine Ali Greil Marcus Richard Meltzer Robert Gordon Sarah Vowell Nick Tosches Anthony DeCurtis William Gay Whitney Balliett Lester Bangs Rosanne Cash Susan Orlean Eddie Dean Selwyn Seyfu Hinds Alec Wilkinson David Hajdu
384 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2002
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About the author
Jonathan Lethem
236 books2,654 followersJonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer.
His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller.
In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship
His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller.
In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship
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February 27, 2010
Odd how little a book of 2001-published music essays has dated by 2010, but then, few of these pieces are about trends; one that is, about turntablism, is unspeakably dull. Topics include Ralph Stanley, the Strokes, "Help Me Make It Through the Night" and, in the book's most remarkable entry, Korla Pandit, a turban-wearing mystic organist on L.A. TV in the '50s who turned out, posthumously, to be black, not Indian.
March 13, 2007
If you are a fan of music and/or music journalism "De Capo's Best Music Writing" series is a must-read. More than the usual suspects at Spin and Rolling Stone, the series includes the best music zine writing as well. (Hmm... best zine writing... that could be a book series of its own)
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