The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature

The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature Artist: Neal Pollack , and Pine Valley Cosmonauts
Label: Bloodshot Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 744302009025
EAN: 0744302009025
ASIN: B000060MN3


Release Date: 2002-03-05

The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature


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Tracks:

  1. Introduction
  2. The Albania Of My Existence
  3. I Am Friends With A Working Class Black Woman
  4. It Is Easy To Take A Lover In Cuba
  5. I Have Had Sex With 500 Women
  6. Letter From Paris
  7. A Spoken Word Poem For America
  8. My Week At Sea
  9. I Wipe My Ass On Your Novel

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars One joke, but a well-executed one.......2004-03-29

This collection of pieces from the book of the same title is a bit limited in its appeal, and grows tiresome at times; one wishes he would expand the scope of his satire beyond the navel-gazing of modern literary non-fiction. But even if the humor is a bit repetitious, at least it's funny. "I Am Friends With a Working Class Black Woman" makes the entire CD worthwhile, with the bourgeois reporter befriending his subject, only to be forced to endure the casual homophobia of the WB. The Pine Valley Cosmonauts' soundtrack, while sometimes sounding more like Ken Burns documentary than NPR, generally fits the mood well. This isn't Neal Pollack's very best, but still worth a listen.

5 out of 5 stars Pollack aims at pretentious snobs like no-one before.......2002-10-03

This is not a stand-up: just a very, very sharp and merciless parody of those self-styled intellectuals that you can sometimes catch on National Public Radio (nothing against NPR, you understand).

Pollack makes fun of the "travel writers" who pretend to be above the tourist crowd and yet offer nothing but shallow banalities from which they claim to be so different. The mumbling tone of these writers, narrating from their own books, is captured perfectly; cheesy "ethnic" background tunes add to the effect of authenticity. This is great.

Writing is superb: Pollack spices the steady stream of narrow-minded pretentious cliches with bits of similarly narrow-minded politically correct remarks about unfair way of the world. You can practically believe he is a bona fide overpaid writer, pretending to shed tears over injustices of capitalism (and then employing a fierce literary agent who manages to get top dollar for these brave unmaskings of greed).

Self-righteous contributors of certain periodicals (and, if I may note, some authors of Lonely Planet travel guides) need to listen to this CD every morning before they put pen to paper - a healthy dose of irony will do them no harm.

Music Album:

  1. Over My Shoulder ~ I Am Kloot
  2. Rock On 1984 ~ Various Artists
  3. The Racketeers ~ Mad for the Racket
  4. I Love Rock & Roll, Vol. 7 ~ Various Artists
  5. Fuzz Townshend ~ Fuzz Townshend
  6. You Make ME Sick
  7. Aqua ~ Asia
  8. Fran Waterloo Till Duvemala ~ Various Artists
  9. Humble Pie ~ Humble Pie
  10. Dead Letters ~ Rasmus

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Our Mann Flute/Impressions of the Middle East ~ Herbie Mann

Then and Now: The Soft Winds, 1946-1996 ~ The Soft Winds

Music CD 67

Smooth Jazz: The Quiet Storm ~ Various Artists

Charlie Barnet Featuring Julie Christine ~ Charlie Barnet

Les Sucettes ~ France Gall

Songs from South America ~ Various Artists

Wanessa Camargo ~ Wanessa Camargo

Tariraritarara ~ Miyavi

Al-Haneen [IMPORT] ~ Hamid Al-Saadi