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November 14, 2008

Here's your chance to justify your obsession with music

Eno%20cover.jpg If you've ever wanted to write a sonnet about your favorite album, now's your chance.

Well, actually, it's your chance to write a whole book about it. 33 1/3 Books is requesting proposals for future projects, to be published in 2010 and 2011. But be quick! The deadline for ideas is Dec. 31st.

The 33 1/3 series is simple: to write a book about a seminal album in musical history. Previous publications include Dusty Springfield, Radiohead, Joy Division, ABBA, Elvis Costello and Jeff Buckley.

For more details about how to submit your own proposal, visit the blog. And for the first time, you can actually submit more than one album for consideration.

So far, proposals include Yo La Tengo, Jefferson Airplane, The Zombies, Van Halen and The Fall.

Surprisingly, Fall Out Boy's book has yet to be written. I'm sure it's just an oversight, right? I mean, they've already published one on Celine Dion and Slayer!

Posted by Nancy Knight at 1:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Funny enough, I was just reading about one of these, involving The Pogues' classic "Rum, Sodomy & The Lash":

http://pogues.com/Print/rum_book-excerpt.html

Posted by: William P. Tandy | November 14, 2008 2:36 PM

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While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, Nancy Knight grew up reading nearly everything she could get her hands on, including a probably unhealthy amount of R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike, with the obligatory Jane Austen thrown in. She'll still read just about anything you put in front of her, especially the funny or weird. She lives in the city with her books, cat and drum set.

Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is an assistant managing editor and Sunday editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme.