Dean Wareham's
Black Postcards is a very readable memoir that may ironically accrue a larger audience than his bands Galaxie 500 and Luna, whose careers the book chronicles. It's both touching and amusing, but one thing I didn't find it was melodramatic, possibly because I kept hearing the words spoken lackadaisically over Velvets-like guitar. Not so for Liz Phair, who hypes the rock'n'roll angle pretty strongly in her NYT book
report review, opening with a late-'80s Queen lyric and focusing on more rough-and-tumble than you'd expect in a piece about an indie rocker with "an elective reading list to rival Art Garfunkel's."
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