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Joe Bonomo

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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

The sacred squeal of now

The 24-year-old who’s quoted in Billboard is “a bit worried about and for his generation. He thinks democracy has had it, violence is stupid, pot ought to be legalized. In a sense, he is a spokesman of his generation, since he turns on teens with his musical compositions.” If the phrase “turns on teens” sounds like a relic, the follow-up comments apply an undeniably firm time- and -date-stamp.

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Highway to Hell

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Sweat

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Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and F...

3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions
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No Place I Would Rather Be:...

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Installations

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Field Recordings from the I...

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This Must Be Where My Obses...

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Vanishings from that Neighb...

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