Elena Ferrante
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Someone recentl y asked Greil Marcus why "sixties and seventies rock crits hate prog so much?" "Why do people hate prog roc...
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Sterling Morrison, quoted in Rob Sheffield's Beatles book I'm guessing the VU hated the Mothers ever since that period when the latt... -
love to listen to this stuff but I'm not sure I really understand it beyond "that's a bunch of cool weird noises in a pattern...
Fantastic quote. I never really got on with the Neapolitan Quartet: I read the first one and quite enjoyed it, but didn't feel moved to keep going. You can tell she is a real talent, though.
ReplyDeleteI love the TV series, not got to the books (the wife swears by them and says they are differently great c.f. the TV version).
ReplyDeleteAlso really liked the other recent Ferrante TV series, The Lying Life of Adults. It has a really odd atmosphere and interesting use of music. Similar thing of mysteriously motivated, not wholly likeable but still you root for them characters.