“Such snapshots are pre-Instagram, but the hazy romanticism that now glosses that world for me came startlingly back to life when I read Love Rock Revolution.” Sarah Dougher reviewed Mark Baumgarten’s Love Rock Revolution for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Sarah Glidden’s Rolling Blackouts: coming next year on Drawn & Quarterly.

Martin Douglas’s essay on race and indie rock is fantastic.

Walter Kirn on Biblical marginalia.

Marie-Helene Bertino, whose Safe As Houses is well worth your time, is interviewed by The Paris Review.

Elaine M. Will on her comic Look Straight Ahead.

Jesse Ball has an exercise in style for you.

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