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Carl Wilson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Toronto. Author "Let's Talk About Love"; music critic @Slate; freelance writer/editor for hire; co-organizer, Popular Music Books series; misc, @trampolinehall.

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Book Cover for: Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive, Mark Anthony Neal

Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive

Mark Anthony Neal
Carl WilsonCarl Wilson

Monday Feb 6 @ 5 pm ET: the Popular Music Books online series presents @newblackman Mark Anthony Neal on his BLACK EPHEMERA w/ @SashaPanaram and I. Augustus Durham @imeanswhatisays. Contact me or @ericweisbard for the Zoom link. https://t.co/G8ErnDZN2C

Paperback, 2022

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Extreme Music: From Silence to Noise and Everything in Between, Michael Tau

Extreme Music: From Silence to Noise and Everything in Between

Michael Tau
Carl WilsonCarl Wilson

Popular Music Books in Process returns on Tues, Sept 6 @ 5 pm ET with Michael Tau discussing his forthcoming @feralhouse book "EXTREME MUSIC" with music writer @Marcissist (Marc Masters). Contact me or @eweisbard for the zoom link. https://t.co/LBS0FvUd4P

Paperback, 2022

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery, Adam Clair

Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery

Adam Clair
Carl WilsonCarl Wilson

With nods to - and wishes that I could have gone into more detail about - @Elephant6Movie as well as the recent Elephant 6 book "Endless Endless" by Adam Clair @awaytobuildit.

Hardcover, 2022

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Musician: Gepunktetes A5 Notizbuch oder Heft für Musiker, Pm Books

Musician: Gepunktetes A5 Notizbuch oder Heft für Musiker

Pm Books
Carl WilsonCarl Wilson

The Popular Music Books series is back Tuesday at 5 pm ET with @FrancescaRoyst1 discussing her landmark Black Country Music book with musician and @colormecntry podcaster @rissipalmer. Contact me or @eweisbard to join the Zoom. https://t.co/bmtVRsAlpf

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Book Cover for: Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop, Danyel Smith

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Danyel Smith
Carl WilsonCarl Wilson

Danyel Smith @danamo talking about her new book SHINE BRIGHT: A VERY PERSONAL HISTORY OF BLACK WOMEN IN POP with @daphbrooksmusic, live online this Tuesday, 5 pm ET, presented by Popular Music Books in Process and @popconorg. DM me or @eweisbard for the link. https://t.co/73snPs7YzI

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions, Francesca T. Royster

Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions

Francesca T. Royster
Carl WilsonCarl Wilson

The Popular Music Books series is back Tuesday at 5 pm ET with @FrancescaRoyst1 discussing her landmark Black Country Music book with musician and @colormecntry podcaster @rissipalmer. Contact me or @eweisbard to join the Zoom. https://t.co/bmtVRsAlpf

Hardcover, 2022

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Wolf in White Van, John Darnielle

Wolf in White Van

John Darnielle
Carl WilsonCarl Wilson

@alienated In John Darnielle's (@mountain_goats) novel WOLF IN WHITE VAN, the main character makes his living running an RPG by mail, well into the online era, for some diehard loyalists - with unforeseen horrific consequences.

Paperback, 2015

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Succession: Season One: The Complete Scripts, Jesse Armstrong

Succession: Season One: The Complete Scripts

Jesse Armstrong
Carl WilsonCarl Wilson

@jodyrosen Which is exactly what Jesse Armstrong knows too, Jody. Comedy was always the strongest note of Succession, *along with other things (like the human and social cost of that farce to them and everyone else).

Paperback, 2023

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Tempest, Aimé Césaire

A Tempest

Aimé Césaire
Carl WilsonCarl Wilson

@garybarwin @TheDHTaylor This has been widely done in other postcolonial literature, maybe beginning with Aimé Césaire's 1969 "A Tempest," and the ones discussed below. But *Canadian takes on the Tempest have tended to downplay Caliban, it's true. https://t.co/gMc4pPOylO

Paperback, 2002

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: My Rock 'n' Roll Friend, Tracey Thorn

My Rock 'n' Roll Friend

Tracey Thorn
Carl WilsonCarl Wilson

@tracey_thorn captures something so true, at least about arty youths' letters of the time, in this passage about her mid-80s correspondence with Lindy Morrison (Go-Betweens), from Thorn's "My Rock'n'Roll Friend." https://t.co/8nRxJqlzV5

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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