The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience

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In The Show Ill Never Forget, writer Sean Manning has gathered an amazing array of unforgettable concert memories from a veritable A-list of acclaimed novelists, poets, biographers, cultural critics, and songwriters. Their candid, first-person recollections reveal as much about the writers lives at the time as they do about the venues where the shows occurred or the artists onstage. * Ishmael Reed on Miles Davis * Luc Sante on Public Image Ltd. * Heidi Julavits on Rush * Daniel Handler and Andrew Sean Greer on Metric * Diana Ossana on Led Zeppelin * Maggie Estep on Einsturzende Neubauten * Dani Shapiro on Bruce Springsteen * Gary Giddins on Titans of the Tenor! * Nick Flynn on Mink DeVille * Susan Straight on The Funk Festival * Rick Moody on the The Lounge Lizards * Jennifer Egan on Patti Smith * Harvey Pekar on Joe Maneri * Thurston Moore on Glen Branca, Rudolph Grey, and Wharton Tiers * Chuck Klosterman on Prince * Sigrid Nunez on Woodstock * Jerry Stahl on David Bowie * Charles R. Cross on Nirvana * Marc Nesbitt on The Beastie Boys * And many more ...No matter where your musical taste falls, these often funny, occasionally sad, always thought-provoking essays-all written especially for The Show Ill Never Forget-are sure to connect with anyone who loves, or has ever loved, live music.

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Paste, 11/13/09 "A simple, genius idea: Get an army of extraordinary writers to dash off remembrances of extraordinary concerts."

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Editor Sean Manning's writing has appeared in the New York Press and Black Book magazine. He lives in New York.