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Submitted by Infamous Carl, Mar 13, 2007 15:25

I remember back in 1975, just starting out in graduate school, Trow wrote a piece about Bruce Springsteen, who'd just released "Born to Run." Calling Springsteen hype (or something like that), he managed at once to be insightful and infuriating.

Trow apparently never lost that magic touch. If anyone needed a broad (or two) to keep him on the straight and narrow, it was Trow. Marginal men are the most fascinating, but they pay the highest price if they can't reconcile their contradictions. RIP, old pal.

Infamous Carl

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The tributes to George Trow seem to skate over my favourite part of his work: his fiction. I first became... [MORE]

edward fox 

Mar 23, 2007 08:09

Wow! What a fascinating article. Frankly, I've never heard of George Trow before (he's 3 yrs. my senior) but he... [MORE]

Sir Joshua 

Mar 6, 2007 08:25

There's not much non-fiction that's in book form, Sir Joshua. Just Pilgrim's Progress, In the Context of No Context (which... [MORE]

Ouish 

Mar 6, 2007 18:15

Thanks for your response to my comment. And thanks for the roster of his available printed material. When I made... [MORE]

Sir Joshua 

Mar 7, 2007 09:57

I remember back in 1975, just starting out in graduate school, Trow wrote a piece about Bruce Springsteen, who'd just...

Infamous Carl 

Mar 13, 2007 15:25

A question: Was Trow the link between The Situationists and the latter half of the twentienth century? [MORE]

Entropic Daisy 

Mar 20, 2007 21:04

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