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BY
& ABOUT
Here
are some links to articles on the internet by or about
Tom:
- An essay by Tom at one of our favorite litblogs,
maudnewton.com, on writing WHY
NEW ORLEANS MATTERS,
including some remarks on his favorite books of journalism,
is here:
maudnewton.com/blog/?p=5972
- Jane
Ciabbatari has been keeping the focus on New Orleans
in her blog for the National Book Critics’ Circle.
She interviews Tom here:
bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2006/08/thinking-about-new-orleans-5.html
- Tom was one of the voices in the recent PBS American
Experience documentary on New Orleans. You can watch
the entire show online here:
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/neworleans/program/index.html
- Tom’s booklet notes to the Criterion
Collection’s
DVD of Federico Fellini’s classic I Vitelloni are here:
www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=246&eid=370§ion=essay
- Tom
also wrote the notes for Criterion’s DVD of William
Dieterle’s film The Devil & Daniel
Webster, readable here:
www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=214&eid=326§ion=essay
- In the spring of 2005 Tom interviewed the saxophonist
and composer Benny Golson live onstage at Loyola
University. His introduction and interview are here:
www.artistshousemusic.org/videos/benny+golson+introduction+by+tom+piazza
- Bob
Dylan chose Tom to write an essay on him for
the 1997 Kennedy Center Honors commemorative booklet.
PBS posted the essay here:
www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/dylan/index_essay.html
- Tom put together an imaginary soundtrack for his
novel MY COLD WAR at the music-and-literary blog
largeheartedboy.com, here:
www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2005/07/book_notes_tom_2.html
- The always-interesting Chicago magazine STOP
SMILING interviewed Tom about the state of New Orleans two
years after Hurricane Katrina, here:
www.stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php?id=851
- To
read Toms August 2002 Sunday New York
Times Arts and Leisure article about
Bob Dylans
return to the Newport Folk Festival, go to:
www.truthout.org/docs_02/07.29F.piazza.dylan.htm
- Greil
Marcus had nice words to say about Toms summer
2001 Oxford American article on blues
singer Charley Patton; scroll down to Number 5 on
Marcuss Top Ten of 2001 on Salon.com:
archive.salon.com/ent/col/marc/2001/08/20/marcus51/
- Toms
1997 New York Times article about Harry
Smiths Anthology of American Folk Music is reprinted
at:
expectingrain.com/dok/cd/97/anthology.html
- A
nice interview with Tom, about True Adventures
With The King of Bluegrass, can be found at
the Vanderbilt University Press website:
www.vanderbilt.edu/vupress/piazza3.html
- Ray
Sawhill wrote an interesting dual review of Toms
1997 collection of jazz pieces, Blues
Up & Down, along with Eric Nissensons Blue
for Salon:
www.salon.com/books/sneaks/1997/10/31review.html
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