
Ink in the Grooves
Drop the record needle on any vinyl album in your collection, then read the first pages of that novel you''ve been meaning to pick up—the reverberations between them will be impossible to miss. Since Dylan went electric, listening to rock ''n'' roll has often been a surprisingly literary experience, and contemporary literature is curiously attuned to the history and beat of popular music. In The I...
Drop the record needle on any vinyl album in your collection, then read the first pages of that novel you''ve been meaning to pick up—the reverberations between them will be impossible to miss. Since Dylan went electric, listening to rock ''n'' roll has often been a surprisingly literary experience, and contemporary literature is curiously attuned to the history and beat of popular music. In The I...