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Real Life Rock Top 10: May 6, 2026
Hospital diary
1–3 Stanford Hospital, 500 Pasteur Drive, Palo Alto (April 21). A few days after a third open-heart surgery—the last two in 2022—I needed to feel more than I could manage on my own hooked up in a bed: to feel more alive and...
Ask Greil: May 1, 2026
Hi Greil, As I’ve seen for signs at several No Kings rallies, So many questions, so little space. But one thing I’ve thought about recently is, What does Greil make of “I Pity the Poor Immigrant”? I saw that you touched on it in a talk, say...
Real Life Rock Top 10: April 8, 2026
History lessons, why UK post-punk will live at least as long as the people who make it, how some people lose their voices and others never find them
1 Mary Lucia, What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To (Minnesota). F...
Ask Greil: April 4, 2026
I asked you a question about Roxy Music a couple of years back, about their first two albums, and you said something along the lines that the self-titled debut and For Your Pleasure weren’t part of the Roxy cosmology to you, as your passion...
A Conversation with Daveed Diggs about Mystery Train
On March 7, 2026, the Bay Area Book Festival hosted a conversation, with Daveed Diggs as interlocutor, about the 50th anniversary edition of Mystery Train. The video of the event is now available, and you can watch it at this link.
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