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...Hornby??s definition of pop is broad enough to include Bob Dylan as well as Nelly Furtado. He has little time for snobbishness, though in a piece previously published in The New Yorker he surveys the Billboard Top Ten albums with a mixture of bewilderment, distaste and humor...
...Hornby??s latest work, Songbook, recently published in paperback, zeroes in on two key themes in Hornby??s previous novels: music and the art of being a fan. Music has occupied a central place in all of his work. In both High Fidelity and About a Boy, the narrators, who bear more than a passing resemblance to Hornby himself, use music as a tool to live by, measuring their lives in songs. Dispensing with the fictional complications of a novel, Hornby has now brought himself directly into his writing...
...other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don’t like them as much as I do,” Hornby writes in the opening chapter of Songbook. The book that follows is a rambling, self-deprecating and often hilarious account of Hornby??s personal relationship with pop, from metal to folk to electronica...
...Hornby??s novels often use humor to deal with serious issues—as he puts it, he writes “in a funny tone about sad things...
Tickets were originally required for the Hornby reading, but the policy was reversed yesterday in an e-mail from the department’s Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies Mary C. Johnson announcing that “we are opening Nick Hornby??s reading to everyone...