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OTHER
PUBLICATIONS
Tom
wrote the booklet notes for the DVD of Murray
Lerner’s documentary
Bob Dylan: The Other Side of the Mirror, which
contains fantastic footage of Dylan at the 1963, ’64,
and ’65 Newport Folk Festivals.
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The
collection Read the Beatles: Classic and
New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy,
and Why They Still Matter, edited by
June Sawyers, is full of essays and musings
by the likes of Geoffrey O’Brien,
Gloria Steinem, Allen Ginsberg and others, from
the 1960s through today, as well as interviews
with the Beatles themselves. Tom contributed
an original essay.
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Tom’s
essay on post-Katrina New Orleans and Charlie
Chan DVDs appeared in the September/October
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The
Criterion Collection’s DVD reissue of Federico Fellini’s
early masterpiece I Vitelloni
contains all kinds of worthwhile extras, including a video
documentary on the making of the film and a long booklet
essay by Tom.
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Studio
A: The Bob Dylan Reader features a new, never-published
essay by Tom on Dylan’s early-90s recordings Good
As I Been To You and World Gone Wrong. This
very interesting book, edited by Benjamin Hedin, also includes
important articles on Dylan from throughout his career,
as well as original pieces by writers like Barry Hannah
and Rick Moody.
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Fans
of comics and literature will definitely enjoy Give
Our Regards To The Atomsmashers!: Writers On Comics
(Sean Howe, editor), an eclectic collection of obsessive
musings on comics of all sorts (Spider Man, Little Nemo,
Classicis Illustrated, Nick Fury…) by the
likes of Jonathan Lethem, Greil Marcus, Luc Sante, and Chris
Offutt. Tom contributed a fictional interview with Superman
Comics characters Bizarro and Mr. Mxyzptlk.
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Tom
wrote the booklet essay for the 2-disc set The
Best of Leroy Carr, the best compilation ever
put together of tracks by the widely influential Indianapolis
bluesman of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Carr was a suave
singer and pianist who made the song “How Long, How
Long Blues” a hit.
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here to find this CD at Amazon.com |
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The
Bluegrass Reader, edited by veteran Nashville
journalist Thomas Goldsmith, contains a wealth of writing
on this musical form by figures as varied as Hunter Thompson,
David Gates, Marty Stuart, Mike Seeger and Alan Lomax. It
also contains an excerpt from Tom’s Oxford American
portrait of Jimmy Martin (True Adventures With
the King of Bluegrass).
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Tom contributed the main essay for the booket
accompanying the Criterion Collection's DVD reissue
of the 1941 movie The Devil and Daniel Webster,
starring Walter Huston and Edward Arnold. The
package also has all kinds of interesting photos,
music, and other commentary.
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here to find this DVD at Amazon.com |
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The five-CD companion box set to the PBS series Martin Scorsese Presents THE BLUES contains a booket featuring a 5,000-word essay by Tom. The box is a great introduction to the blues, and contains performances by Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell, Muddy Waters, and many, many others.
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The New Great American Writers Cookbook (University Press of Mississippi), edited by Dean Faulkner Wells, contains an entry by Tom, for "original Piazza family meat sauce," among many other recipes by the likes of William Kennedy, Jayne Anne Phillips, Padgett Powell, Jay McInerney, and Bobbie Ann Mason.
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GOTTA
SERVE SOMEBODY: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan,
a compilation of performances by gospel stars
such as Shirley Caesar, Aaron Neville, and the
Fairfield Four, contains an original essay by
Tom.
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Tom’s
story “Brownsville” has been included
in the anthology French Quarter Fiction,
along with New Orleans-based stories by Robert
Olen Butler, Richard Ford, Ellen Gilchrist, Barry
Gifford, Poppy Z. Brite, and others.
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Sony
Music has issued Billie Holiday + Lester
Young: A Musical Romance, a great single-disc
collection containing many of the best recordings
those two jazz geniuses made together. Tom wrote
the accompanying essay.
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here to find this disc at Amazon.com
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Tom's
Oxford American article on Gillian Welch,
"Trust the Song," was selected by Peter
Guralnick for inclusion in Best Music Writiing
2000 (Da Capo Press).
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to find this book at Amazon.com
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The
Workshop (Hyperion), an anthology of the best writing from
seven decades of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, edited
by Tom Grimes, is now available in paperback.
Organized by decade, the volume includes stories
by Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus,
Gail Godwin, Thom Jones, Jane Smiley, T.C. Boyle,
Ethan Canin, Jayne Anne Phillips, Michael Cunningham,
and many other outstanding fiction writers. Tom's
story "Brownsville," which leads off his collection Blues and Trouble,
is one of the stories chosen to represent the
1990s, along with work from Chris Offutt, Abraham
Verghese, and Elizabeth McCracken.
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to find this book at Amazon.com
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"Brownsville" has also been translated into Spanish for inclusion
in the anthology Habra una vez (Alfaguara),
a collection of new short fiction by American
writers, also including work by Jhumpa Lahiri,
Rick Bass, Gish Jen, Brady Udall, Edwidge Danticat
and others.
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here to find this book at Amazon.com
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Tom's
interview with the writer Albert Murray, originally
published in The Boston Phoenix, has been
reprinted in Conversations With Albert Murray,
edited by Roberta McGuire, part of the Literary
Conversations Series published by University Press
of Mississippi.
Click
to find this book at Amazon.com
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