Gavin Steyn's reading

Thoughts on what I'm reading lately

Sunday, September 8, 2019

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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff This book is very much a mixed bag between the really insightful and the ...
Monday, September 4, 2017

A couple of music books

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I've been on a bit of a Charles Rosen kick in the last few months. I made it through Sonata Forms , his book on the history of sonata ...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

The Romantic Generation

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Charles Rosen's The Classical Style  is one of the great classics (no pun intended) of music criticism, focusing on the music of Mozart...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

The Human Factor

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Graham Greene famously divided his writing output into "novels" and "entertainments," with the latter being more light-w...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Mr. Palomar

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I don't really have anything intelligent to say about Mr. Palomar .  It's by Italo Calvino, which means it's sui generis , stran...

Kings of Cool

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Kings of Cool  is the prequel to Savages , and very much of a piece with it.  The same punchy style.  The same lack of depth.  It's a bi...

Liberation Movements

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Liberation Movements  is Olen Steinhauer's fourth novel set in an imaginary Eastern Bloc country; each novel has taken a look at this co...
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