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A Whore Just Like the Rest – The Music Writings of Richard Meltzer – Review

June 1, 2000

These two books are simply the best accounts probably ever written, on the Golden Age of Rock Journalism. Yeah, there really was such a thing.

Sarre-Chasm – Four Typewritten Pages – Column

April 1, 1999

So I’m sitting here, squinting through the harsh light of the new year, gulping yesterday’s flat brut outta someone else’s discarded glass…

A Few of My Favorite Things – Three Books I’m Reading – Column

May 1, 1996

John Waters, Trash Trio – The scripts for three of Johnny’s finest: Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, and (the sadly never produced) Flamingos Forever.