Colm TOibIn on Joni Mitchell - James Wood on The Who - Stacey
D'Erasmo on Kate Bush - Daniel Handler on Eurythmics - Lisa
Dierbeck on the Pretenders - Clifford Chase on the B-52s . . . and
other writers on the soundtracks of their lives
In "Heavy Rotation," twenty of our most acclaimed contemporary
writers pay homage to the record albums that inspired them.
Benjamin Kunkel remembers how the Smiths' "Queen Is Dead"
transformed him into an adolescent Anglophile. Pankaj Mishra
describes how a bootleg cassette of ABBA's "Super Trouper" evoked a
world far from his small Indian village. Kate Christensen relives
her years as an aspiring novelist in Brooklyn listening to Rickie
Lee Jones's "Flying Cowboys." And Joshua Ferris recalls his
head-banging passion for Pearl Jam's "Ten."
Exploring music from the Talking Heads to the "Hedwig and the
Angry Inch" soundtrack, this extraordinary anthology is a moving,
funny, uplifting, and unforgettable celebration of the unique and
essential relationship between life and music.
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