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I’m thrilled to share Nick Nichols’ review published in the American Songwriter. Those of you in the Creative Nonfiction workshop in 2008 might remember some of his early music writing. We’ll be able to say we knew him when… Congrats Nick!

So there’s a good reason for the cosmic musical pairing going down this week in Bryant Park, NYC: to commemorate the publication of this anthology! Peter Terzian’s collection Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers On The Albums That Changed Their Lives features essays by both John Jeremiah Sullivan and James Wood.

Jason Kelley sent me a link to (non-fiction professor) John Jeremiah Sullivan’s latest book review in the November 08 Harper’s (subscription required). While searching for a free version of the piece, I found more on Sullivan’s interest in the blues (sort of an interview about a review of the texts which are themselves grappling with the music). All of which makes the blues seem even more intriguing… I mean, you could never get this much mileage out of, say, the new Guns n Roses. Though I would welcome the attempt.