The ink in the grooves : conversations on literature and rock 'n' roll /

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Includes bibliographical references.Introduction: Needles and pens / Florence Dore -- Let it rock / Michael Chabon -- The genius and modern times of Bob Dylan / Jonathan Lethem -- All the poets: Musicians on writing (interview with Scott Timberg) / Rhiannon Giddens -- Chronicles: Volume one (excerpt) / Bob Dylan -- Banjo interlude: An idle teen's life is saved by music / Daniel Wallace -- Tonight we improvise (excerpt from Sag Harbor) / Colson Whitehead -- Ubu lives!: Remembering punk and its stories / Rick Moody -- By heart (excerpt from Eat the document) / Dana Spiotta -- Precious resource: Rock and our generation of novelists (interview) / Jonathan Lethem and Dana Spiotta -- Whack fol the daddy-o: How I learned to hate Irish music slightly less / Roddy Doyle -- Dear Dylan (interview) / Lucinda Williams -- Iambic pentameter and the blues (interview) / Steve Earle -- Sir Patrick rocks! Dragging ancient ballads into the twentieth century, and what that can do to fragile young minds / Richard Thompson -- Two blue suedes / Laura Cantrell -- When we all get to Heaven / Randall Kenan -- English as a second language / Warren Zanes -- Cosmic ray / Peter Guralnick -- Ain't it always Stephen Stills / Lorrie Moore -- Black cowboys and Jimi Hendrix (interview) / Dom Flemons -- Anatomy of a Canned Heat hit: "Let's Work Together" by Wilbert Harrison / John Jeremiah Sullivan -- John Prine: The reluctant genius (interview) / Dave Jacques, Jason Wilbur, Fats Kaplin,and Pat McLaughlin -- The day the live concert returns / Dave Grohl -- Unknown band on a forgotten stage / Greil Marcus -- Right on time (interview) / Amy Helm"What is the relation between rock and literature? Compiled by 'rock novel' lit professor and indie musician Florence Dore, The Ink in the Grooves is a collection of essays and interviews about rock and literature from some of the most renowned novelists and musicians of our day-a backstage pass to musings on this topic from Richard Thompson, Colson Whitehead, Steve Earle, Michael Chabon, Rhiannon Giddens, Lucinda Williams, and others." --