Category: BOOKS
![Book Review: Alan Licht's "Common Tones: Selected Interviews With Artists And Musicians 1995-2020"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Book Review: Alan Licht’s “Common Tones: Selected Interviews With Artists And Musicians 1995-2020”
Guitarist, conceptual artist, rock ’n’ roller, improviser, minimalist, music journalist, film archivist, booking agent and curator—no one’s ever going to
![Book Review: Aaron Cohen's “Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music And Black Cultural Power”](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Book Review: Aaron Cohen’s “Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music And Black Cultural Power”
The soul music that Chicago sold to the rest of the nation beginning in the late 1950s was more than
![Book Review: Joe Pernice's "It Feels So Good When I Stop"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Book Review: Joe Pernice’s “It Feels So Good When I Stop”
It is perfectly fitting, and almost expected, that Joe Pernice would bring a long work of fiction into the world.
![Book Review: David Berman's "The Portable February"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Book Review: David Berman’s “The Portable February”
Though he's best known for fronting the late, great Silver Jews, sardonic, cerebral country rock isn't David Berman's only talent.
![Crime Stories: George Pelecanos' "Drama City" and "The Turnaround"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Crime Stories: George Pelecanos’ “Drama City” and “The Turnaround”
Don’t be afraid of the raised lettering on the book jacket; a well-written crime-fiction novel deserves to be treated as
![Crime Stories: George Pelecanos' "Shoedog" and "The Night Gardener"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Crime Stories: George Pelecanos’ “Shoedog” and “The Night Gardener”
Don’t be afraid of the raised lettering on the book jacket; a well-written crime-fiction novel deserves to be treated as
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Crime Stories: George Pelecanos’ Derek Strange/Terry Quinn Series
Don’t be afraid of the raised lettering on the book jacket; a well-written crime-fiction novel deserves to be treated as
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Crime Stories: George Pelecanos’ Nick Stefanos Series
Don’t be afraid of the raised lettering on the book jacket; a well-written crime-fiction novel deserves to be treated as
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Crime Stories: George Pelecanos’ D.C. Quartet
Don’t be afraid of the raised lettering on the book jacket; a well-written crime-fiction novel deserves to be treated as
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Crime Stories: George Pelecanos
Don’t be afraid of the raised lettering on the book jacket; a well-written crime-fiction novel deserves to be treated as
![Crime Stories: George Pelecanos Makes MAGNET A Mix Tape](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Crime Stories: George Pelecanos Makes MAGNET A Mix Tape
MAGNET has long been an admirer of George Pelecanos, a D.C.-based author who's penned 15 crime-fiction novels and written for
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Paul Westerberg’s Latest Super Value Record
Paul Westerberg has become the rock 'n' roll version of the Super Value Menu at Wendy's. Think of the former
![things-the-grandch_eels THINGS THE GRANDCHILDREN SHOULD KNOW: By Mark Oliver Everett [Thomas Dunne]](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
THINGS THE GRANDCHILDREN SHOULD KNOW: By Mark Oliver Everett [Thomas Dunne]
Recent memoirs by Dean Wareham and Juliana Hatfield offer a glimpse into a musician’s life during the ’90s alt-rock boom
![broad_street_cover21 BROAD STREET: By Christine Weiser [PS Books]](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
BROAD STREET: By Christine Weiser [PS Books]
Using insider info from her days as bass player in Mae Pang, Christine Weiser re-creates Philly’s mid-’90s underground scene in