Episode · The Book Review · 2020-10-30
Books mentioned on A Writing Career Among Trailblazing Music Stars
Gilbert Cruz discussed Da Capo best music writing 2000 by Peter Guralnick, Looking to Get Lost by Peter Guralnick, Wagnerism by Alex Ross, Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralnick, Careless Love by Peter Guralnick, and The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross. Peter Guralnick discussed King of the Delta Blues Singers by Robert Johnson. Alex Ross discussed Ulysses by James Joyce, The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, My Ántonia by Willa Cather, and O Pioneers! by Willa Cather. Dwight Garner discussed What Becomes a Legend Most by Philip Gefter. Jennifer Szalai discussed Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Da Capo best music writing 2000
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000 edited by Peter Guralnick is a celebrated anthology capturing the finest music journalism and storytelling of its time.
Discussed“Peter gralnick is here to talk about his new book looking to get lost adventures in music and writing”
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Looking to Get Lost
Looking to Get Lost by Peter Guralnick is a rich collection of essays and adventures in music and writing that chronicles the author's encounters with legendary cultural figures.
Discussed“Peter gralnick is here to talk about his new book looking to get lost adventures in music and writing”
Where to get it
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Wagnerism
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross is a sweeping cultural history that examines the massive, polarizing influence of composer Richard Wagner on global art, politics, and culture from the nineteenth century onward.
Discussed“Alex R is here to talk about his new book Vagner ISM art and politics in the shadow of Music”
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Last Train to Memphis
Discussed“brilliant and I think it's safe to say definitive two volume life of Elvis Presley last train to Memphis and careless love”
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Careless Love
Discussed“brilliant and I think it's safe to say definitive two volume life of Elvis Presley last train to Memphis and careless love”
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King of the Delta Blues Singers
Discussed“it was with the release of Robert Johnson King of the Delta blue singers by Columbia in 1961”
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The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Discussed“his first book the rest is noise listening to the 20th century won the national book critic Circle award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize”
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Ulysses
James Joyce's landmark modernist novel Ulysses chronicles an ordinary day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mapping human consciousness and daily existence through a revolutionary stream-of-consciousness technique.
Discussed“and then Joyce retreated from it somewhat and kind of questioned undermined even mocked Vagner ISM so in ulses you know Steven Deus very much the kind of image of the young James Joyce”
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The Song of the Lark
Discussed“one of her great novels the song of the Lark is entirely the biography of a of a Vagner soprano”
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My Ántonia
Willa Cather's classic novel My Ántonia portrays life on the Nebraska frontier through the perspective of an immigrant family and their neighbors.
Discussed“and O pioneers and and my Antonia you can sort of see her fondness for the figure of Brun Hilda especially vogner's powerful female figures”
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O Pioneers!
Discussed“and O pioneers and and my Antonia you can sort of see her fondness for the figure of Brun Hilda especially vogner's powerful female figures”
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What Becomes a Legend Most
Discussed“I reviewed a new biography of Richard avidon the photographer it's called um what becomes a legend most and it's from Philip gter who's a photography writer”
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Billion Dollar Loser
Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman is a gripping non-fiction book that chronicles the meteoric rise and spectacular fall of Adam Neumann and the office-sharing startup WeWork.
Discussed“so the book I reviewed this week was billion dooll loser and the subtitle is the Epic rise and spectacular fall of Adam Newman and we work and it's by a journalist at New York Magazine named Reeves Wiman”
Where to get it
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“I reviewed what becomes a legend most a biography of Richard avidon written by Philip gefter”
“and I reviewed billion dooll loser the Epic rise and spectacular fall of Adam Newman and weor by Reeves Weidman”