on music

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• On The Name of This Band is R.E.M. by Peter Ames Carlin, for The Yale Review

• On Giorgio Moroder and Steve Barron's Electric Dreams, for the Metrograph Journal

• A Talk of the Town with The B-52's, for The New Yorker 

• An on-the-road tour diary with Pavement, for The Paris Review

• A profile of Stuart Murdoch + Belle & Sebastian's Late Developers, for the Washington Post

• Pure Moods, for Pitchfork

• Beverly Glenn-Copeland's Keyboard Fantasies, for Pitchfork

• Lana Del Rey's Chemtrails Over the Country Club, for Pitchfork

• St. Vincent's Daddy's Home, for the Washington Post

• Sophisti-pop (the genre), for the Washington Post

• Sparks & Edgar Wright's The Sparks Brothers, for the Washington Post

• Bruce Springsteen's Letter to You, for the Washington Post

• Morrissey's I Am Not a Dog on a Chain, for Pitchfork

• Jonathan Richman & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy at the Lincoln Theatre, for the Washington Post

• Oneohtrix Point Never's Uncut Gems OST, for Pitchfork

• Cass McCombs' Tip of the Sphere, for NPR Music

• Tim Hecker's Konoyo, for NPR Music

• Sustain-Release 2019, for Resident Advisor

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on books

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• Henry Bean's The Nenoquich, for Bookforum 

• Fredrick Exley's A Fan's Notes and Chris Bachelder's The Throwback Special, for Bookforum

• EXCAVATE! The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall, for the Washington Post

• Alex Ross' Wagnerism, for The Nation

• Wayne Koestenbaum's Figure It Out, for the Washington Post

• Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot, for NPR Books

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on podcasts 

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• Beverly Glenn-Copeland and new age music for the New York Times'  Popcast

• Lana Del Rey for the New York Times' Popcast

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sundries

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• Something about going to a ventriloquist convention, for n+1 Magazine

• Busytown Radio, a call-in show co-hosted monthly on 8 Ball Radio, with Sasha Frere-Jones

• Something about my favorite car, for the Paris Review

• Something about airports, for McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

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