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The Gordon Sharpe Americana Book Award 2024

January 10, 2025 Tim Martin 0

This is the second year of our tribute to our late colleague Gordon Sharpe. We felt that an award which recognised the cream of the new books we’ve reviewed over the previous year was a fitting […]

Paperback Riders: Willy Vlautin’s short audio fiction

December 9, 2024 Tim Martin 0

Willy Vlautin has now produced three spoken word albums. Some of them connected to his novels, some of them standalone. As the first has a festive theme, and is narrated by Vlautin, who has also narrated […]

Book Review: Kenneth Womack and Kenneth L. Campbell “Bruce Songs: The Music of Bruce Springsteen, Album-by-Album, Song-by-Song”

December 2, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Well, this is a hefty tome, an oversized hardback running to more than 250 pages, with something of the whiff of the academic about it – a meticulous study of Springsteen’s officially released oeuvre, to date, […]

Book Review: David Browne “Talkin’ Greenwich Village”

November 20, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

David Browne is a journalist and author. He has written for Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Spin and the New York Times among others. His books have largely focused on music telling the tales of Tim and […]

Book review: Oliver Gray “Austin Healing – Cautionary Tales From 20 Years Of SXSW”

November 14, 2024 Paul Kerr 1

Oliver Gray should be known to AUK readers as our regular Austin correspondent having reviewed the annual SXSW Festival for us over several years. He is, of course, not an Austinite, nor even American. He is […]

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