Review of Peter Ames Carlin’s new bio from Dwight Garner of The New York Times.
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Another review, this one by Mark Krotov for The New Yorker.
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the New Yorker one is a pretty good review, other than that it calls Nightswimming “irredeemable”. 
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On the occasion of Peter Ames Carlin being a guest on this week’s episode of Sound Opinions, co-host Greg Kot lists his 9 favorite R.E.M. albums.
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An excerpt from the book here, taking in the Monster tour and Bill’s aneurysm. A lot more detail than I’ve read before. Scary stuff.
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Wow, no kidding. And he was 38 at the time? Man.