“Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space” in Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs (Da Capo 2007)
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Phil Freeman’s Marooned blog
Series Editor, Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006 (Da Capo 2006)Guest Edited by Mary Gaitskill
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October 2007: Series Editor, Best Music Writing 2007 (Da Capo, October 2007)Guest Edited by Robert Christgau. Pre-order Best Music Writing 2007 at Powell’s Books.
November 2007: “Dancing, democracy and kitsch: Poland’s Disco-Polo” in Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music (Duke University Press, November 2007)
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Rock and Roll Cage Match, edited by Sean Manning (Three Rivers Press) Out in August 2008
Essay "The Jukebox at the Standard plays only sad, sad songs" aka "The Single v. The Album"