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How the CIA inspired Firestarter, why Axl Rose hates JD Salinger, David Bowie’s Orwell musical and why Jimmy Savile was the first ever club DJ: The books and stories that influenced classic songs
About a year and a half ago, I was in a second-hand bookshop when I saw old paperbacks of For Whom The Bell Tolls and Venus In Furs and I thought, “Books with the same name as songs – Songbooks!” and my nerdy book-brain started thinking of other songs named after books – Moby Dick, Wuthering Heights, Absolute Beginners – and then of books named after songs: Bright Lights, Big City, Helter Skelter, Less Than Zero etc. The obsessive in me was hooked and I started reading those books.
Chicago: City on the Make
Sixtieth Anniversary Edition “Once you’ve become a part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.” Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren’s writing that “you should not read it if you cannot take a punch.” The prose poem, Chicago: City on the Make, filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words.
No Expectations 020: For You to Sing
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We Are All Members of One Another: Colin Asher on Nelson Algren
To celebrate the release our new paperback edition of (the first ever!) National Book Award-winning novel, The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren, we are proud to share Algren scholar Colin Asher’s foreword to this reissue, in which Asher explores Algren's dedication to the underdog, and his lifelong effort to humanize those who'd been pushed to the margins by mid-century American society.
Neil Peart’s mammoth reading list: The drummer’s favourite books of all time
It’s a cliché of music that the drummer is, ahem, the least well-read member of the band, to put it mildly. Fortunately, for the sticksmiths who have been beleaguered by this trope since time immemorial, Rush’s late thunderous groove engine Neil Peart crafted a hefty tome of texts to disavow the prejudice for good. It is notable in Peart’s case, that he was also the lyricist for Rush which represents a fairly rare double act in music.
Hollywood Djinn With a Dash of Bitters
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La Gata Negra
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5 Books That Changed My Life: Kevin Coval
Studs Terkel called him a “glowing voice in the world of literature.” Chance the Rapper once said, “He made me understand what it is to be a poet, what it is to be an artist, and what it is to serve the people.” Writer, educator and poet-at-large Kevin Coval, who’s been helping young Chicagoans speak their truth and build better communities for the better part of two decades.
The Neil Peart Reading List
I've always been curious about Neil Peart. You could say he's the George Harrison of the band Rush. He's the quiet one, but he is anything but silent. In addition to the complex time keeping duties the drummer extraordinaire is also the band's lyricist. With the song's varied themes ranging from philosophy to fantasy you have to assume he is well read. As a librarian I am always fascinated to learn what books are the favorites of certain individuals.
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The Best Books on The History of Food
First of all, I know you had some trouble narrowing your book choices down to five – and you also said it was difficult to restrict yourself to English-language books. Can you tell us what made it so hard? If you’d asked me about the French Revolution, another of my fields, I probably would have reacted in the same way.
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