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John Updike once said Vladimir Nabokov wrote prose the only way it should be written: ecstatically. That's the way the Coltrane quartet plays here. The four-part suite, composed to celebrate Coltrane's spiritual triumph over drug addiction, ranges hypnotically from a meditative murmur to fierce shrieks, with Coltrane's tenor sax surging to astonishing inventiveness and intensity. The 1964 album staked out frontiers of harmony, rhythm and structure that musicians are still exploring today...
...then the narrator interjects that there had been 500 funerals in New Jersey that day and that except for the aforementioned moments, this one was "no more or less interesting than any of the others." It's an astonishing passage: an author arguing, against the evidence of his own prose, that a scene he has crafted is nothing special...
...letting the influence (if not the words) of other writers seep into her own prose, Viswanathan overstepped her bounds. Let us hope that the Ad Board does not overstep...
Besides the nausea-inducing romantic elements of “Templar,” Khoury’s prose is actually compelling...
...album from art-rock sibling duo The Fiery Furnaces, contained a delightful little Easter egg: the transcript of an email written by Matthew Friedberger, the band’s lyricist and instrumentalist, to their publicist. The email contains the most pretentious bit of prose ever committed to the page (or monitor). Since no summary of mine could capture the unmitigated pompousness of the offending passage, I quote it for you here: “The record is meant to sound like a not quite 12 year old lapsed piano student girl’s version of the Black Sabbath...