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Geoffrey O'Brien’s Followers (11)
Geoffrey O'Brien
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The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America
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2010
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8 editions
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Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks And The Masters Of Noir
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1981
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6 editions
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The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the 20th Century
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1995
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4 editions
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Bartlett's Poems for Occasions
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2004
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6 editions
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Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969
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Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears
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2004
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8 editions
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The Browser's Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading
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2000
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4 editions
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Dream Time
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1988
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10 editions
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The Reader's Catalog: An Annotated Listing of the 40,000 Best Books in Print in Over 300 Categories
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1989
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2 editions
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Castaways of the Image Planet
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2002
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6 editions
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“Yet the laboriously sought musical epiphany rarely compares to the unsought, even unwanted tune whose ambush is violent and sudden: the song the cab driver was tuned to, the song rumbling from the speaker wedged against the fire-escape railing, the song tingling from the transistor on the beach blanket. To locate those songs again can become, with age, something like a religious quest, as suggested by the frequent use of the phrase "Holy Grail" to describe hard-to-find tracks. The collector is haunted by the knowledge that somewhere on the planet an intact chunk of his past still exists, uncorrupted by time or circumstance.”
― Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears
― Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears
“The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even the most perfectly captured sound to restore the moment of its first inscribing. That world is no longer there.”
― Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears
― Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears
“Christmas is the marriage of chaos and design. The real sound of life, for once, can burst out because a formal place has been set for it. At the moment when things have gotten sufficiently loose, the secret selves that these familiar persons hold inside them shake the room...An undercurrent of clowning and jostling is part of the process by which we succeed finally in making our necessary noise: despite the difficulty of getting the words right, of getting the singers on the same page, of keeping the ritual from falling apart into the anarchy of separate impulses. From such clatter--extended and punctuated by whatever instrument is handy, a triangle a tambourine, a Chinese gone--beauty is born.”
― Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears
― Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears
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