Richard Meltzer - trivializer of the awesome or awesomiser of the trivial?

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I've got this Meltzer piece he wrote for the Village Voice in '74 or '75 called 'Sloppy Seconds.' The Voice rejected the piece. The piece is about him eating nothing but garbage off the streets of New York for an entire week. He actually did it.

Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

first, wtf @ old ilx/this thread -- it's just bananas right from the beginning.

i just have one simple question related to richard meltzer:
will 17 insects can die in your heart ever be reprinted or has it been and i just can't find it? going price for a used copy appears to be over $100.
i'm assuming "good verse and bad" means it's going to be verse and not rock criticism?

free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 14:38 (eleven years ago) link

maybe try interlibrary loan?

i've always wanted to track down meltzer's article about abbott and costello -- i came across a reference to it once in one of his interviews but have never seen it anywhere.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link

yeah i have a trip to the library in my future anyway, it's on the list.

free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link

apparently acc to my local library/worldcat there are 3 copies in libraries in this country, none of which are circulating.
interesting.

free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 27 June 2013 17:48 (eleven years ago) link

and one of them is in the library of the HoF

free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 27 June 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link


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