ARGONAUT BOOKS

In 'prose that glides and shimmies and pivots on risky metaphors, low puns and highbrow reference points' (Brian Dillon, frieze), Ian Penman's first book in twenty years is cause for celebration. Reviews 'Ian Penman is popular music's Hazlitt - its chief stylist - and his sound is often equal to what he writes about. Each of his essays is an event, so this book is indispensable.' - Andrew O'Hagan, author of The Secret Life'It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track summons the lives and times of several extravagantly damaged musical geniuses and near-geniuses in (mainly) the br...Read More