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CHARLES TAYLOR

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Wet, hard, and dreaming

Lost Girls   is evangelical about the erotic  
Being both elegant and explicit, refined and raunchy, Lost Girls aims to obliterate the idea that there’s a difference between pornography and erotica. Slideshow: Images from Lost Girls  
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  September 22, 2006

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Finding the future in the past

Dylan makes history
Dylan is going back to a period he loves. That period happens to be one before he was born, but what the hell?
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  September 07, 2006

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The song whisperer

Green Gartside revives Scritti Politti
This is an album that you lean into, as if receiving a happy confidence.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  August 23, 2006

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Better than good

George Pelecanos’s sweet Night
A couple of weeks back, in a small bar in Brooklyn, I witnessed an unlikely and wonderful collaboration. George Pelecanos reads an excerpt from The Night Gardener
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  August 22, 2006

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Hard target

The impenetrable pop of Scott Walker
Critic Langdon Winner once wrote that anyone who attempts to listen to Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica has two obstacles to overcome: the music and the lyrics. Scott Walker, "Jesse" (RealPlayer)
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  August 09, 2006

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Dirty rotten scoundrels

Kenneth Fearing’s prescient creeps
According to Fearing, American success consists of mediocrity, corruption, ruthlessness that’s so second nature it’s business as usual, paranoia that’s actually a sensible determination to watch your back.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  August 05, 2006

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Diamond in the rough

Jackie De Shannon’s eternal promise
If today’s pop-music business is, as it was in the ’60s, driven largely by songwriters and producers who choose singers to put across their latest concoctions hoping for a hit, why does so much current pop feel so utterly charmless? Jackie DeShannon live in London (YouTube)
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  August 01, 2006

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Dog licks man

Etgar Keret’s sane surrealism
Imagine my embarrassment. I’m on a crowded subway car reading Etgar Keret’s new collection of short stories. Finishing one story, I turn the page and there, in big block letters, is the next story’s title: “ACTUALLY, I’VE HAD SOME PHENOMENAL HARD-ONS LATELY.”
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  June 20, 2006

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Rebel Belles

The Dixie Chicks hold their ground and then some
No other performer has been as vilified as the Dixie Chicks were for speaking out — and they wouldn’t have been if they hadn’t made their name in the conservative space of mainstream country music.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  June 06, 2006

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Folk re-revival

Springsteen rediscovers faith and fun in Seeger
The laugh that opens Bruce Springsteen’s We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions is the first clue that what’s about to follow might actually be fun.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  May 24, 2006

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Stardust memories

Willie Nelson gets to know Cindy Walker
“To become immortal, and then die.”
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  May 17, 2006

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Doomed romance

Or, the spy who loved her  
Graham Greene and John le Carré have long cornered the market on tales of gray, dour espionage mandarins who, with inevitably tragic results, feel their lives revitalized by a taste of romantic love.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  March 15, 2006

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Major minor

Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square  
Hamilton’s newly re-issued 1941 novel Hangover Square makes almost all other hard-boiled writing seem phony.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  February 19, 2006
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