Judging the Book By Its Cover is a column where we, you guessed it, judge books by their covers. Or more accurately, we judge the covers of books, examining the different aesthetics they’ve had through the years (and in some cases titles) to determine which are the most and least effective. Even in crime lit, […]
Christopher Harris’ War on Sound is a Dickensian Rock and Roll Novel
In the middle of the journey through War On Sound, a quixotic, grizzled, in recovery, former rock journalist (is there any other?) takes up the unasked-for challenge of a melancholic twentysomething guitar player whom the gods have gifted with the musical acumen of Mozart and prodigious sexual equipment similar to cordwood. The has-been journo says, […]