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Favorite Song Essays

McSweeney’s, a weird literary site that publishes a magazine and some anthologies (in print) has a section of essays on favorite songs. I’m thinking about writing and submitting one (probably on Rush’s “Subdivisions”). The one on “She Came in through the Bathroom Window” is pretty good, and not only because the title is correctly capitalized. Check it out

Patrick • Recommendations • 03/18/03 • 1 comments

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Dan • 02/09/04 • 12:06 AM:

I just read this in its entirety. Fantastic. Wow.

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