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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Coviello is our bard of ardor, of nuanced connection, of passionate critical engagement with objects of art and each other. There is God, or at least life, after Prince, for a little while, anyway, but it's up to us to seek vibrancy and feeling and new meaning in a world that seems too ready to close up shop. Coviello's essays are beautiful demonstrations of our task." -- Sam Lipsyte, author of "No One Left to Come Looking for You" and "The Ask"
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Praisesongs and Descants Overture: Talk, Talk Part I: Sounds Is There God after Prince? The Last Psychedelic Band Karaoke for the People The Everyday Disaster What We Fight about When We Fight about Doctor Wu Part II: Ceremonies Love in the Ruins Circumstance Joy Rounds First Loving John The Impostor Part III: Kids Easy Our Noise Where I Want to Be Ghost Stories Rhapsody for the Crash Years Part IV: Sentences So-Called Normal People Say Chi City Our Man in the Fifteenth Hollow Killing Joke Part V: Ends My Thoughts Are Murder Mercy Hours In the Maze Anthony and Carmela Get Vaccinated Afterword: Exit Wounds Acknowledgments Notes Index
