Rodney Welch: The Blog

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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

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The Chosen One by Rodney Welch via #soundcloud https://t.co/VnoyXWX2fp — RodneyWelch (@RodneyWelch) July 27, 2016
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Well, this is nice...

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The good folks at Full Stop  chose my July 8 piece on the third volume of  Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle as one of the ten best rev...
Sunday, December 07, 2014

Of course, death is often preceded by a prolonged coma...

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The New Republic to halt publication until 2015 after staff walkouts
Saturday, December 06, 2014

RIP, The New Republic

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The New Republic may be, in the words of owner Chris Hughes "bigger than any one of us" -- but is it bigger than the 50-plus staff...
Thursday, December 04, 2014

Nabokov, At Least

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Has anyone ever drafted a "Nabokov: From Best to Worst" list? If so, Laughter in the Dark would likely have a fairly secure s...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Addictive Tune for the Day

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On Light Up Gold , their break-through second album from 2012, Brooklyn-based Parquet Courts established themselves as a great funky punky...

Thought for the Day

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No one ever looks at a mugshot and says "I think he's innocent."
Sunday, November 30, 2014

RIP Kent Haruf, 1943-2014

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"My stories all start with character, and because they all have trouble and they have to figure out what they are go...

RIP Mark Strand, 1934 - 1980

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Friday, November 28, 2014

The Triumph of Blind Joe Death

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I don't know the language of music, so I always have to scramble around in my toolbox to find some kind of emotional or metaphoric t...

Wilds Times

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I gave Julia Elliott's short story collection The Wilds a bit of a rave some weeks ago, amidst interviewing her for the Free-Times. I...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Sufjan sells out

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Looks like that great Sufjan Stevens Christmas song " Put the Lights on the Tree" is now being used to sell chicken.

A Mood for Despair

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A few years ago on this very blog, I explored my fascination with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, an enormously ambitious and prolific filmmaker...

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Started reading Joseph and His Brothers yesterday. Mann requires additional help.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Grace Jones' Fascinating Cover of The Pretenders' "Private Life"

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  I'm a huge, huge fan of the first LP by The Pretenders, but it wasn't until this evening that I saw this riveting 1980 cover of ...
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