Life and Limb: Skateboarders Write...
Collecting tales of skateparks, underground movements, memoirs, poems and more... read more
The Lennon Companion
Rock criticism didn’t exist when the pieces composing The Lennon Companion’s first half were written, nor was there any precedent for the Beatles... read more
Between Midnight and Day
Dick Waterman has led the mythic life most blues fans only conjure up in their wildest juke-joint dreams... read more
Standing By Words
Last issue (Paste #9), I expressed some reservations with The Middle Mind, in which Curtis White attacks American middlebrow-intellectual culture’s vapid consumerism... read more
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris’ reputation as America’s preeminent smart ass is well earned, so much so he can maintain it while living in Paris... read more
The Towers of Trebizond
Sometimes, a camel is just a camel. Other times, in Rose Macaulay’s droll and wise The Towers of Trebizond, a one-humped white racing camel of disputed sanity... read more
Step Right Up: Stories of Carnivals, Sideshows...
Step Right Up fills some kind of niche: Somewhere there must be a slot left in the canon (perhaps just to the left of a collection of odes to goldfish) for an anthology of circus-related vignettes... read more
Playing Right Field: A Jew Grows in Greenwich
George Tabb endured the pain every geek, nerd and misfit encounters in adolescence, but he also had moments of triumph and revenge of which his peers could only dream... read more
The Fabric of the Cosmos
G.K. Chesterton, in his wonderful “A Defense of Nonsense,” argued that the gibberish rhymes of 19th-century writers like Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll are implicitly religious... read more
Turn On Your Mind
Popular music has been under the influence of LSD for over four decades, but you might not have realized just how pervasive the psychedelic sound has become... read more
The Fifth Book of Peace
The narrative style of The Fifth Book of Peace will seem familiar to those who’ve read Maxine Hong Kingston’s memoir The Woman Warrior... read more
Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane could be forgiven for feeling cocky. His best-selling book Mystic River is a big-screen smash (adapted by Clint Eastwood, whom he just calls “Clint”) and a buzz film for the Oscars... read more
Bruce Springsteen's America ...
Is it just me, or is the critical consensus surrounding Bruce Springsteen beginning to unravel? In a Balkanized world of ’zines and microgenres... read more
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2003
Four volumes into its annual roundup of pop music writing, Da Capo appears uncertain how to top the terrifically varied 2001 and 2002 entries... read more
Vinyl Junkies
Every guy with a record collection and a girlfriend should read Brett Milano’s Vinyl Junkies with her as relationship therapy... read more
Sunshine
A few quiet strides into the shadows behind the snappy pop culture of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the joyous literacy of Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series, Robin McKinley’s absorbing urban fantasy... read more
Blues Poems
The blues has ingrained itself so deeply into our culture that it’s uncertain what music, literature and life would be like in America without them... read more
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