The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concert-going Experience Book

A rite of passage, a defining event, a catalyst of musical and personal epiphanies--a concert is an experience unlike any other.

In The Show I'll Never Forget, writer Sean Manning has gathered an amazing array of unforgettable concert memories from a veritable A-list of acclaimed novelists, poets, biographers, cultural critics, and songwriters. Their candid, first-person recollections reveal as much about the writers' lives at the time as they do about the venues where the shows occurred or the artists onstage.

Ishmael Reed on Miles Davis
Luc Sante on Public Image Ltd.
Heidi Julavits on Rush
Daniel Handler and Andrew Sean Greer on Metric
Diana Ossana on Led Zeppelin
Maggie Estep on Einstürzende Neubauten
Dani Shapiro on Bruce Springsteen
Gary Giddins on Titans of the Tenor!
Nick Flynn on Mink DeVille
Susan Straight on The Funk Festival
Rick Moody on the The Lounge Lizards
Jennifer Egan on Patti Smith
Harvey Pekar on Joe Maneri
Thurston Moore on Glen Branca, Rudolph Grey, and Wharton Tiers
Chuck Klosterman on Prince
Sigrid Nunez on Woodstock
Jerry Stahl on David Bowie
Charles R. Cross on Nirvana
Marc Nesbitt on The Beastie Boys
And many more . . .

No matter where your musical taste falls, these often funny, occasionally sad, always thought-provoking essays--all written especially for The Show I'll Never Forget--are sure to connect with anyone who loves, or has ever loved, live music.