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Time’s Echo
By Jeremy Eichler
This cerebral work explores music’s power to capture an age.
Willie, Waylon, and the Boys: How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever
By Brian Fairbanks
A virtuoso account of the renegade artists who redefined a genre.
Does every human woe involve cutting a deal with Satan? Apparently.
I Don’t Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
By Nick Corasaniti
Greetings from Asbury Park!
In Poe’s Wake: Travels in the Graphic and the Atmospheric
By Jonathan Elmer
An erudite, overblown case for Edgar’s lasting reach.
Another not-necessarily-necessary addition to the Fab canon.
Splice of Life: A Memoir in 13 Film Genres
By Charles Jensen
A queer writer chronicles his life via movies, to brilliant effect.
Monsters
By Claire Dederer
What to do with beautiful art from wicked artists?
