Needle in the Groove

Author: Jeff Noon

In this astonishing novel Jeff Noon allows the complex rhythms of dance music to infect his language, creating a new kind of writing / liquid dub poetics / in the grooves he discovers a world where the scratches of the stylus cut the body / a dj’s samples are melodies of blood / love is a ghost lost in the boom box / and the only remix that really matters is the remix of t….Read More

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