Live concerts can leave a lasting impression both for the music and for their context in our lives. Editor Sean Manning and several contributors to the book The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience, tell us about the ones that still resonate for them. Plus, news from Capitol Hill and Iraq.
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Hear it Live!
Sean Manning, the editor of The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience (Da Capo Press, 2007) joins us with four of his contributors to talk about their essays:
Sigrid Nunez, author of the novel The Last of Her Kind, just out in paperback, ...
Sigrid Nunez, author of the novel The Last of Her Kind, just out in paperback, ...
Memorable concerts
On today's show, Brian talked to Sean Manning and other contributors to The Show I'll Never Forget about memorable concertgoing experiences. Here are selections from some of the emails we have received from listeners about concerts that have etched themselves into their memory.
When my wife was very close ...
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