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Literary Love
Playing
Right Field
George Tabb FINALLY puts a book
out. It is SO great to see a well deserved author get out to the
masses. I'll let you in on a little secret. George Tabb got me
into writing seriously. Seriously! I used to read his column
every month in MaximumRocknRoll, a punk rock 'zine that was like the World
Wide Web for punk rockers before there was the World Wide Web. Oh,
stop it, it wasn't THAT long ago! Tabb had a way of grabbing you within the first paragraph
and taking you on a melodic journey through hell and back....and he
continues his literary genius in PLAYING RIGHT FIELD. Damn. He got beat up A LOT when he was a kid.
And God bless him for it, because he nails what it's like to grow up as an
outsider.....and we have a little bit of outsider in all of us. To tell you the truth, last month really sucked reading-wise
for me. That's why Bathtub Gin made it as the book of the
month...because everything else I was reading sucked HARD. It
depressed me. Then I picked up PLAYING RIGHT FIELD and my luck has changed
for the better. You know what? I was going to list a bunch of the
other books I've read this month and just decided not to. I don't
want to steer you any other way. Get online and buy this book
now! Literary love, |