John Coltrane, April 1966 © Chuck Stewart Photography, LLC
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Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem is the author of eleven novels, including The Fortress of Solitude and The Feral Detective. His music writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, the New Yorker, and the 33 1/3 series, for which he wrote about Talking Heads’ Fear of Music. He lives in Los Angeles and Maine.
A Points South essay from the North Carolina Music Issue.
I remember the dB’s. I was eighteen. It was 1982. The band was still together.
I remember time and space were different then, and information moved incrementally through these media. Only a handful of things ever happened to everyone all at once—things like John Lennon’s murder, or Reagan’s election.
