The 1970s

Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness

Peter Birkenhead | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Birkenhead

Darkness on the Edge of Town is a record of American reckoning, an accounting of the steep, dreadful costs of unconsciousness and the fulsome, liberating rewards of opening our eyes.

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The Day the Music Died

Michael Pattison | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Pattison

Don McLean saw February 3, 1959 as The Day the Music Died, but really it was the day the legend of Buddy Holly was born.

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Feeling Normal?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jayne Lyn Stahl

I grew up in a place, Bayside, New York; a place where, when I mentioned Nietzsche, the woman who lived above me asked, "if you take Penicillin, will it cure that?"

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