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The Plank (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
TNR would like to congratulate our music critic David Hajdu, whose book The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America was just named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2008 by The New York Times . Hajdu discussed the book with critic Douglas Wolk on TNR.com in April; click here to read their debate, and here to see a slideshow of the lurid comic-book covers...
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James (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
On my lunch break, I bought the new book The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide To The Greatest Songs From Punk To The Present . I read a few entries, which are quite good (I particularly liked Douglas Wolk's summation of the Fall's "Totally Wired."). I have mixed feeling on the website that spawned this book , but I think I'm going to enjoy reading this. But I noticed something while leafing...
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Comic Book Conventions.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Douglas Wolk covers Alternate Press Expo for PW Comics Week. Follow the link...
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A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
... own, particularly regarding Brown's work. This book doesn't focus on Brown's music as closely as Douglas Wolk's sharp volume James Brown's Live At The Apollo, but Sullivan's is an adept critic: Discussing Brown's 1964 single "Out Of Sight," he says it contains "brassy bursts of punctuation, like the multiple exclamation points of an action comic book"; later, he describes Brown's...
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THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
... from liberals.” There’s also a slide show in the online version. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL! Inside, Douglas Wolk reviews the latest books from Los Bros Hernandez with a review stunningly entitled The Audacity of Hopey : Like most of Hernandez’s books, “The Education” was initially serialized in “Love and Rockets,” the series he’s shared with his brother Gilbert since 1982. The two virtually...
