Neil McCormick Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Daily Telegraph music critic. Author of Killing Bono, #Zero. Ghostwriter of U2 by U2. Know all.
The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Cormac McCarthyNeil McCormickIn the days after reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road, I would find myself spontaneously bursting into tears. I don't think I had fully grieved the loss of my dad years before, & his apocalyptic father & son tale opened the floodgates. McCarthy was an utterly extraordinary writer.
Paperback, 2007
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Coal Miner's Daughter
Loretta LynnNeil McCormickShe was proud to be a coal miner's daughter, but Loretta Lynn was so much more than that. https://t.co/HlBxzhSUEx
Paperback, 2021
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Inferno: Italian-English Parallel Text
DanteNeil McCormick🤔@Hozier's forthcoming new album offers sensuous, labyrinthine meditations on love, life & death, channelling Dante's Inferno, Ovid's Metamorphosis & Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman. Oh to have been a fly on the wall at that record company meeting ! https://t.co/xo9OQ4yCTs
Paperback, 2021
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Lyrics
Bryan FerryNeil McCormickShould lyrics be presented as poetry? Rock stars and publishers seem to think so. Here's Bryan Ferry, laureate of romantic doom: "Serpentine sleekness/ Was always my weakness/ Like a simple tune/ But no dilettante/ Filigree fancy/ Beats the plastic you" https://t.co/ttcby6TKHd
Hardcover, 2022
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The Promise: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Damon GalgutNeil McCormickI've just finished Damon Galgut's The Promise, which was so rich and dazzling and full of humanity. Guess those @TheBookerPrizes judges know what they're doing. https://t.co/iEBfFFRbja
Paperback, 2022
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The Sick Bag Song
Nick CaveNeil McCormick@davidhepworth Irish chanteuse Imelda May has a charming book of poetry out as we speak. Leonard Cohen & Patti Smith obviously. Nick Cave's excellent tome The Sick Bag Song. But are they pop stars? 🤔
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Chuck Berry: An American Life
Rj SmithNeil McCormickDeeply impressive tome about music, race, America, and rock n roll as an act of personal creation and disruption. I didn't think anyone could get inside the mystery of Chuck Berry's proud and perverse mind, but RJ Smith really does. https://t.co/SRGm3lsFjb
Hardcover, 2022
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Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century
Jean-Luc GodardNeil McCormickThis film was made the year before I was born. It was already old when I saw it in some arthouse cinema in the 70s. It blew my teenage mind and made me aware of new possibilities for cinema. Au revoir Jean-Luc Godard. https://t.co/6QSvD9JZq2
Hardcover, 2000
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Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop Music: A History
Bob StanleyNeil McCormickPersonal favourites include Nick Cave & Sean O'Hagan's moving and wise Faith, Hope & Carnage; Jarvis Cocker's delightful Good Pop, Bad Pop; Bono's heartfelt Surrender (of course), Bob Dylan's mischievous Philosophy & @rocking_bob Stanley's dazzling & essential Let's Do It...
Paperback, 2023
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The Third Policeman
Flann O'BrienNeil McCormick🤔@Hozier's forthcoming new album offers sensuous, labyrinthine meditations on love, life & death, channelling Dante's Inferno, Ovid's Metamorphosis & Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman. Oh to have been a fly on the wall at that record company meeting ! https://t.co/xo9OQ4yCTs
Paperback, 2024
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