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DEEP SOUTH SALLY MANN It was with haunting, sometimes sexually charged shots of her children, maturing enigmatically in the Virginia hill country, that Mann first gained notice in the late 1980s. Some years later she moved into territory even more shadowy than the boundary between childhood and adulthood: the Southern landscape. Through darkroom accidents and her use of 19th century glass-plate developing techniques, these pictures come to us fogged, scratched and indistinct, like her portrait of a wounded tree, above. Her mesmerizing book is not so much a portrait of the South as it is a dream about...
...group gave itself the nickname the Vulcans, for the Roman god of fire. For more details, see Rise of the Vulcans, by James Mann...
...Third Brother Nick McDonnell 8. Gilead Mailynne Robinson 9. Acme Novelty Library, Vol. 17 Chris Ware 10. Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman Hardcover Nonfiction 1. Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2. Jesus and Yahweh Harold Bloom 3. Maimonides Sherwin B. Naland 4. Beyond Reason Robert Fisher 5. 1491 Charles Mann 6. Freakonomics Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner 7. Little History of the World E.H. Gombrich 8. The World Is Flat Thomas Friedman 9. Bait and Switch Barbara Ehrenreich 10. Lincoln’s Melancholy Joshua Shenk
...Letter to God” is proto-Aimee Mann without the believability. The existential crisis here is not actually meant to challenge her thoughts on the conditions of her life; it is just an exercise in intellectual auto-eroticism...
This is not to say that the album is completely worthless, or that there is nothing to Crow’s attempts to reshape her sound. In its Mann-liness lies possibility, and most of the tunes have some underlying musical accompaniment that makes them pleasant enough in the background...