The subtle art of promotion


"This book comes on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch" - Thomas Pynchon

Promotional blurb on cover of Richard Fariña's 1966 novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. More on Richard Fariña soon. He was married to Joan Baez's sister Mimi. So in the meantime here is a link to Joan Baez's (or, actually, Lloyd Stone's) take on Sibelius.

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