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Steve Earle Arlene Schnitzer Hall Sun July 15 Steve Earle Doghouse Roses (Houghton Mifflin) This is a review of Steve Earle’s very fine book of stories by someone who thinks pop songs are the greatest achievement of our time. Suddenly I was in Puebla, Mexico without having finished this review. Puebla is thick with radios […]
EDITH SITWELL ONCE WARNED that homosexuals should keep their perversion to themselves, rather than making art about it. “Don’t let them write bad books,” she told a lunch companion. “It will only discourage young people.” Nowhere has bad art been more discouraging than in the realm of youth-homo films, where “liberation” has given us a […]
THE TEEN GROUP HANSON is rarely been discussed in their proper context, as part of a spectrum of “indie” pop music running from, say, Hazel, through Pavement, Sebadoh, Harvey Danger, Hanson, and on to its pinnacle, Nirvana. All of these groups are (or were) driven by a very personal and enduring love of music, all […]
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