Category Archives: Books

Merge Book and Booking Merge

Posted on 01/10/2010 by danzp

Amy said she felt like she was rolling the dice when she got me Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records just a couple days before Christmas. She knows I’m a geek, and she saw this book about some indie … Continue reading →

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A Way of Ending

Posted on 05/27/2009 by danzp

“Wallace became the chronicler of a world where it was ‘tough’ to be human, but not impossible. This was the subjective world of his readers, themselves animated by an anxious consciousness of their limitations and contingency. It was an article … Continue reading →

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Good Choice

Posted on 04/29/2009 by danzp

It’s taking me far longer to get through The Lay of the Land than the other two Frank Bascombe books, but passages like this keep me going: “A lot of life is just plain wrong. And the older I get, … Continue reading →

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Warner Brother

Posted on 04/07/2009 by danzp

“Even back in the 1980s (“my” day), when greed ostensibly was good, there was still a sense that the best and the brightest didn’t go to Wall Street. Lots of people did want to go, of course — there was … Continue reading →

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