Steven Poole: City of Glass

9 August 2007

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4 comments

LinksAwakening

13.02 Sunday 20/1/08

Is the title a reference to Paul Auster?

14.06 Sunday 20/1/08

You got it: it’s the first novel of Auster’s New York Trilogy.

And also (for me, anyway) it’s a nod to Philip Glass — to whom the arpeggios at 2.18 to 2.49 are a sort of homage…

Alex

4.24 Sunday 23/3/08

It is also related with roots of tango…

12.00 Sunday 23/3/08

Nice observation. :)

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Steven Poole writes music for films, and words for books and newspapers. And blogs. You can send him an email.

It's my book about political language in the era of the war on terror, that has its own website. There are a great many words over there.

It's my book about the aesthetics of videogames, and was also a column in Edge magazine, and a BBC TV documentary.

My hard-of-hearing pop-trance-rock avatar, he also has his own very minimalist website, with tunes and a massive logo.