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Joe Bonomo

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in Silver Spring, MD

May 04

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Essays, Music, Memoir

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Joe Bonomo's books include Play This Book Loud: Noisy Essays, No Place I Would Rather Be: Roger Angell and a Life In Baseball Writing, Field Recordings from The Inside (essays), AC/DC’s Highway to Hell (33 1/3 Series), Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found, Installations (National Poetry Series), Sweat: The Story of The Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band, and Conversations With Greil Marcus. A five-time "Notable Essays" selection at Best American Essays, he's the Music Columnist at The Normal School and Professor of English at Northern Illinois University. ...more

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The local public pool has reopened after a couple of years of renovations, and Amy and I have been enjoying some late summer late sun (the pool’s in “soft launch” mode, open from four to seven on weekdays). There are few things more blissy than laying in the sun after having swum (and rocketed down the water slides a half dozen times), eyes shut, the warmth on your face, the sounds of splashin

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Average rating: 3.88 · 339 ratings · 56 reviews · 74 distinct works • Similar authors

	Highway to Hell 3.57 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sweat 4.18 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found 3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Place I Would Rather Be: Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing 4.33 avg rating — 33 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Installations 3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Field Recordings from the Inside: Essays 4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conversations with Greil Marcus (Literary Conversations Series) by Joe Bonomo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Greil Marcus, Peggy Whitman Prenshaw 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Must Be Where My Obsession With Infinity Began 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vanishings from that Neighborhood (Wick Chapbook Series 1) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strongman: a true life pictorial autobiography of the Hercules ofthe screen liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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