Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll Writing!
Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 9 May 2003
This month, Bloomsbury – the home of rockin' Harry Potter – publishes The Sound & the Fury: A Rock's Backpages Reader, a selection of seminal pieces by some of the great writers on the site. (A full list of the book's contents appears below.) Here, RBP editor BARNEY HOSKYNS introduces the book.
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