No Such Thing As Was
Joe Bonomorock & roll • sound and sense
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Alone in the crowd
Phillip Lopate will turn 83 this November. In August, he’ll publish his fourteenth book of nonfiction, A Washington Irving Sketch Book: Reflections on an American Writer, with Princeton. I can’t say that I’m a fan of Irving’s—if only becaus...
This gravity felt different
In 2024 and 2025—an annus horribilis during which my parents died within nine months of each other—I flew fifteen times between Illinois and Maryland. From 1989 and 2011, for various reasons, I never boarded a plane. Yet feast or famine I’v...
Some of what I write I think was true
You can read Robyn Hitchcock’s Stranded in the Future in a day, more or less. And in those hours you’ll travel far and wide. The book covers a little more than a decade—roughly 1968 to 1978—but because we’re inside the mischievous head of H...
He kicked 'em out
“Humanity’s legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: ‘He/she was born, lived, died.’ Probably that...
Some mutts can't be muzzled
DOWN AT THE ROCK AND ROLL CLUB—I’ve seen Melbourne, Australia’s mighty Amyl and the Sniffers several times in the past few years. They’ve become as dependable a great night out as the Ramones were decades ago.
Sunday night’s show at the Sa...
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