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Lethem's latest genre-bending novel, featuring a Brooklyn detective afflicted with Tourette's syndrome, impresses the critics.
Great reviews for Memphis soul-blues singer and guitarist Cray's 11 th album: "A sheer blast of rocking good times" (Amy Linden, People ). It may not break any new ground, but it nevertheless impresses the critics--Joe Rosenthal of Rolling Stone writes that it is "a slow-burning soul record--and one of the most focused album's of Cray's 25 year career."
There'd been music before, but, with Harris, it's the business that impresses.
A most detailed and circumstantial account of its genesis, which more than a little impresses me, also traces its origin to the Torbay area and a comic, but not of the Grock variety.
What impresses me, in fact, is that with all the blather about "the new," there is a hunger for history, and for many people, the old is more relevant than the new.