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April 7

OWOSSO — CCR is coming to Owosso.

The media continues to lionize Michael Jackson with a deluge of tributes, retrospectives, and eulogies, and a stream of breathless reporting about what his doctor said and what his sisters did and where his kids stayed. Some of my co-bloggers have compared him to John Lennon. Other articles have placed him in a triumvirate with Lennon and Elvis Presley.

The experience of music and how certain songs can remind us of particular transitory but important times in our lives is explored in You Spin Me Round, a slim book of a dozen essays by mostly Irish writers. Some names will be familiar to an audience clued into a broad reach of contemporary literature, arts criticism, and poetry (Aingeala Flannery, Brian Dillon, Ciaran Carson, Declan Long, Wendy Erskine, M John Harrison), other names not so much unless you’re a reader of literary journals or have an interest in areas of critical theory (Tabitha Lasley, Jayne A Quan, McKenzie Wark, Sydney Wein...

Had you been standing at the south-east corner of Central Park 60 years ago today, the setting might have looked – for the most part – pretty similar to how it does this morning.