July 2010 :: Print Reviews

Print Reviews

Undeleted Scenes

Jeffrey Brown draws his life in very small panels.

The Secret Life of Glenn Gould

It wasn't all Bach and hypochondria in the life of mercurial pianist Glenn Gould. Shelton Hull finds this new biography awash in details of the great musician's love life and other psychological insights.

You Can't Always Get What You Want

Another inside Tell All about the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, and the deadly Altamont Concert told by road manager Sam Cutler.

Modern Masters 24: Guy Davis

Carl F Gauze digs TwoMorrows' Modern Masters interview with cartoonist Guy Davis, despite the artist's nipple defect.

500 45s

Do you remember sifting through the 45 bin back in the day and that one cover caught your eye and you just had to have it? That feeling is what 500 45s is about. Tim Wardyn is pointedly interested in at least one cover in particular.

Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah

Tim Footman's biography describes the sexual, intellectual, depressing romantic that is Leonard Cohen, leaving Jessica Whittington no choice but to put a little whipped cream on it and eat every word with a spoon.

Superf*ckers

James Kochalka's Superf*ckers is a raunchy, dark, proudly toilet-humored takedown of every superhero team going. Matthew Moyer recommends you keep this one out of kids' reach.

Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen

Author Jimmy McDonough is no stranger to tortured artists, difficult personalities, and musicians in hopeless thrall to their muses. Tammy Wynette was long dead by the time McDonough pondered this book, but Matthew Moyer thinks the distance makes it even more special and sacred.