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Tag Archives: Lester Bangs
The Books: Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader; “Kind of Grim: Unraveling the Miles Perplex”, by Lester Bangs
Next up on the essays shelf: Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader, by Lester Bangs In high school, Lester Bangs wasn’t into rock ‘n’ roll. Or so he says. He was a jazz man, almost … Continue reading
The Books: Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader; “I Only Get My Rocks Off When I’m Dreaming: So You Say You Missed the Stones Too? Cheer Up, We’re a Majority!”, by Lester Bangs
Next up on the essays shelf: Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader, by Lester Bangs There are three essays about the Rolling Stones in this collection, two written in 1973 (one essay is called “1973 … Continue reading
The Books: Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader; “On the Merits of Sexual Repression”, by Lester Bangs
Next up on the essays shelf: Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader, by Lester Bangs In his writing, Bangs often refers to the angry mail he gets (you know, mail with stamps and envelopes, member … Continue reading
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Tagged essays, Lester Bangs, Mainlines Blood Feasts and Bad Taste
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The Books: Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader; “Helen Reddy: Long Hard Climb”, by Lester Bangs
Next up on the essays shelf: Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader, by Lester Bangs I grew up surrounded by the music of Helen Reddy. I think my main introduction to her (as was true … Continue reading
The Books: Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader; “Dandelions in Still Air: The Withering Away of the Beatles”, by Lester Bangs
Next up on the essays shelf: Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader, by Lester Bangs The following essay was published in The New Paper in 1975, and features Lester Bangs’ thoughts on each individual Beatle, … Continue reading
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Tagged essays, Lester Bangs, Mainlines Blood Feasts and Bad Taste, The Beatles
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The Books: Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader; “Two Assassinations and a Speedy Retreat Into Pastoral Nostalgias”, by Lester Bangs
Next up on the essays shelf: Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader, by Lester Bangs This is the second collection of Lester Bangs’ work, this one edited by John Morthland, a friend and colleague of … Continue reading
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Tagged essays, Lester Bangs, Mainlines Blood Feasts and Bad Taste, politics
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The Books: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock’N’Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock ‘N’Roll; “from Notes for Review of Lost Highway”, by Lester Bangs
Next up on the essays shelf: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock’N’Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock ‘N’Roll, by Lester Bangs The following was not meant for publication. Lester Bangs was writing a … Continue reading
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Tagged Elvis Presley, essays, Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, Sam Phillips
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The Books: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock’N’Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock ‘N’Roll; “Growing Up True Is Hard to Do”, by Lester Bangs
Next up on the essays shelf: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock’N’Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock ‘N’Roll, by Lester Bangs Bob Seger’s got an interesting story. He hailed from Detroit and was … Continue reading
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Tagged essays, Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
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2013 Books Read
It’s been a hell of a year. Devastating as well as redemptive. I started it out in Memphis, and end it here in New Jersey. And now my new niece Pearl has arrived! It’s been both a busy year as … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Anne Fadiman, Annie Proulx, Arthur Koestler, Balkans, books read, Darkness at Noon, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Edvard Radzinsky, Elinor Lipman, England, friends, George Eliot, H.L. Mencken, Henry James, Herman Melville, Hungary, Ireland, J.D. Salinger, Jeanette Winterson, Joan Acocella, Joan Didion, John Banville, Joseph Heller, Joshua Ferris, Lester Bangs, Lorrie Moore, Patricia Highsmith, Philip K. Dick, Russia, Sam Cooke, Stalin, Tana French, The Netherlands, The Only Game In Town, Thomas Carlyle, Victor Serge, William Shakespeare, Yugoslavia
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