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.
Total word count of piece: 1839
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