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Harry Smith's Map
Harry Smith made an object, an art object, an objective piece of work with a certain shape, containing certain materials, put on sale by a certain…
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The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Red, White, and Blues
February 2003
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For Stanley Booth, 1942-2024
Stanley Booth, who died December 19 in Memphis at 82, was a storyteller.
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Regarding Lucy Sante's 'Six Sermons for Bob Dylan'
Recently Tenement Press in the UK collected the full and original texts of the sermons Lucy Sante was asked to write for Michael Shannon to perform for…
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The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Eminem
November 2002
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Regarding Robert Hilburn’s 'A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman' (Hachette)
The title is more than perfect—it speaks to Hilburn’s ambitions as much as Newman’s. The portrait he draws is of an artistic citizen, a critical…
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Ask Greil: December 11, 2024
I saw this clip on the internet of Timothée Chalamet being given a copy Bob Dylan’s Chronicles to sign, and Chalamet appeared to be laughing it off.
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The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: The Wallflowers
October 2002
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Real Life Rock Top 10: December 6, 2024
There’s nothing like a song so good what it says is, You thought you knew? You don’t know a thing.
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The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: The Mekons (OOOH!)
September 2002 - The Mekons are celebrating their 25th anniver­sary with an album about severed heads....
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November 2024

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