MARCH 1998 Minor-key single-finger piano arpeggios are all the backstory you need, and there’s what’s screened and what isn’t, television makes confusion that much more accessible, and why does…
Nicholas Grider
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For this Sunday’s List, we asked about books you’re ashamed you haven’t gotten around to reading yet. This is not a self-abnegation kind of thing; it’s just something that’s true…
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Almost as well-known as the music of Aphex Twin’s Richard D. James is James’ well-known proclivity for zigging where any other musician would zag, not just musically but in how…
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InterviewLiterature
Lucy Ives Interview: Language and Disaffection
by Nicholas Grider April 24, 2014According to her bio, Lucy Ives is “the author of nineties, a novel about a decade” though in my review here I was more taken with the novel’s play with…
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Editor Mark Richardson wrote at Pitchfork a while back about his favorite screams in popular music. This is Pitchfork, mind you, so we’re talking a certain demographic; I’m not sure,…
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nineties by Lucy Ives Tea Party Republicans Press, 2013 171 pages / SPD / Amazon / Goodreads Even though nineties is a short novel, Ives plays her cards close…