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Amanda Petrusich

(1900) Writer

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Amanda Petrusich is a writer.

Quick Facts About Amanda Petrusich

Born: November 30, 1900
Profession: Writer

About Amanda Petrusich

[Wikidata] music journalist... | [Wikipedia] Amanda Petrusich is an American music journalist. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of three books: Pink Moon (2007), It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music (2008), and Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the Worl

Quotes by Amanda Petrusich

“The Phonograph knows more about us than we know ourselves,” Thomas Edison wrote in 1888. “For it retains the memory of many…

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Memory

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“Collecting anything requires a singularity of focus, but 78 collecting demands an almost-inhuman level of concentration. There is a violence to the…

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“The first time I bought a record, I remember thinking, I have to see if this band has any other records. And…

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First time

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“On a good day, even writing can feel like a form of collecting—of gathering words, images, and ideas and arranging them in…

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Collecting

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“He already had a sense of the ways in which white blues fans were unduly aroused by the supreme otherness of black,…

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Music

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