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...surprises continue with "Unsent," a musicalletter to past lovers: "Dear Jonathan / I likedyou too much / I used to be attracted to boys whowould lie to me and think solely about themselves,/ Dear Marcus / You rocked my world / You had acharismatic way about you." Yet, the song wouldn'tmake sense if the music didn't complement theunusual form. Each "letter" seems packaged in itsown mini-song--the verses (seeminglyintentionally) never...
...Pill was the kind of album you could listen to straight through, without having to fast-forward past any atrocious songs. But Junkie dares more and misses more--it's a more admirable album than her last but not a more listenable one. A few tunes, like the smooth Unsent, are readily agreeable. But too many, like faulty modem hookups, crackle and wail and fail to connect emotionally. Despite such flaws, it's impressive that Morissette and her talented co-producer/co-writer, Glen Ballard, had the courage to release a CD as rambunctious as this one. The follow...
...novelist (his 1976 The History Man may be the funniest English academic novel this side of Lucky Jim), Bradbury is also a hard-working critic, a professor of American studies at the University of East Anglia and, at 55, a man disinclined to suppress the cholers of middle age. Unsent Letters consists of 18 imaginary, therefore utterly forthright, responses to his junk mail...
...Unsent Letters is not so much an escape from reality as a transformation of it. Underneath the jokes lie a good deal of authentic, entertaining autobiography and many shrewd observations of the current literary and academic scenes. Readers not preoccupied with literary correspondence of their own will find it instructive as well as hilarious -- and perhaps even cautionary...
...found ingratiating himself with the literary Left both time-consuming and exasperating." Typically, he did not capture a moment in an effort to reform it, but rather in an effort to remember it. Function lagged far behind form, got lost somewhere in the piles of unpublished manuscripts and unsent letters...