Reflecting on Concerts Past…

A friend of mine, Sean Manning, just finished a book he has been working on. Judging by the cast of characters assembled this can’t be any less than amazing.

The Show I’ll Never Forget:

50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience

A rite of passage, a defining event, a catalyst of musical and personal epiphanies–a concert is an experience unlike any other. In The Show I’ll Never Forget, writer Sean Manning has gathered an amazing array of unforgettable concert memories from a veritable A-list of acclaimed novelists, poets, biographers, cultural critics, and songwriters. Their candid, first-person recollections reveal as much about the writers’ lives at the time as they do about the venues where the shows occurred or the artists onstage.

• Ishmael Reed on Miles Davis
• Luc Sante on Public Image Ltd.
• Heidi Julavits on Rush
• Daniel Handler and Andrew Sean Greer on Metric
• Diana Ossana on Led Zeppelin
• Maggie Estep on Einstürzende Neubauten
• Dani Shapiro on Bruce Springsteen
• Gary Giddins on Titans of the Tenor!
• Nick Flynn on Mink DeVille
• Susan Straight on The Funk Festival
• Rick Moody on the The Lounge Lizards
• Jennifer Egan on Patti Smith
• Harvey Pekar on Joe Maneri
• Thurston Moore on Glenn Branca, Rudolph Grey, and Wharton Tiers
• Chuck Klosterman on Prince
• Sigrid Nunez on Woodstock
• Jerry Stahl on David Bowie
• Charles R. Cross on Nirvana
• Marc Nesbitt on The Beastie Boys
• And many more . . .

No matter where your musical taste falls, these often funny, occasionally sad, always thought-provoking essays–all written especially for The Show I’ll Never Forget–are sure to connect with anyone who loves, or has ever loved, live music.

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