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Run That Back #2
Still alive, still linkblogging, still avoiding the attentions of a disapproving god! Patricia Lockwood’s essay on David Foster Wallace, The Pale King and contemporary worries about what attention is and how we use it is worthy of your time. The conclusion, where she articulates the worry of becoming what(/who?) we read, seems to me to…
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Pick Three – I Inside the Old Year Dying
A hard album to describe if not to listen to, I Inside the Old Year Dying has sent music writers scrabbling for the press release. Three details recur in reviews: that field recordings are part of the soundscape, that Harvey asked John Parish and Flood to stop her from using “the PJ Harvey voice”, and…