{"id":1479,"date":"2013-04-12T14:24:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T21:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2013-04-12T14:24:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T21:24:35","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s3e21-high-functioning-freak-hff-with-tyson-cornell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1479","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S3E21: High-Functioning Freak (HFF) with Tyson Cornell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Tyson Cornell\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/content\/5584793\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down above Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles with Tyson Cornell, proprietor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rarebirdbooks.com\/\">Rare Bird Books<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rarebirdlit.com\/\">Rare Bird Lit<\/a>, former longtime\u00a0Director of Marketing &amp; Publicity at Book Soup on the Sunset Strip, punk rocker, and co-editor of the forthcoming essay collection\u00a0<em>Yes Is the Answer: And Other Prog Rock Tales<\/em>. They discuss the seeming contradiction between Los Angeles&#8217; image as an &#8220;unreaderly&#8221; place and its rank as the largest book market in America; this city&#8217;s tendency not, unlike other cities, to tell you straight-up what it is; how his study of the American newsstand brought him to Los Angeles, and then to Book Soup; the perspective he gained on Los Angeles through both working newsstands and having as a neighbor the manager of the Laugh Factory; how the reading came first in his life, and then the punk rock; <em>Yes Is the Answer <\/em>and the supposed antagonism between punk and prog; his time rocking in the both-advanced-and-retrograde Japan alongside former hair metalists; <em>Sparkstastic<\/em>, the upcoming book on Los Angeles (but England-beloved) band Sparks by Tosh Berman, also formerly of Book Soup; the nature of working at a bookstore, or of trying and failing to work at a bookstore, among the industry&#8217;s classically high-functioning freaks; how much crazier crazy writers can get than crazy rockers, and the ultimately tiresome nature of the non-Thompson, non-Bukowski literary wild man persona; the way that books and bookstores seem both unimprovable, in away, and yet somehow headed straight for disappearance; why books cost so much, and the advantage of slapping dogs on their covers; and the implications (and potential conspiracy theories surrounding) girls who make millions on their self-published vampire e-books.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e21-high-functioning-freak-hff-with-tyson-cornell\">Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e21-high-functioning-freak-hff-with-tyson-cornell\">\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down above Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles with Tyson Cornell, proprietor of Rare Bird Books and Rare Bird Lit, former longtime\u00a0Director of Marketing &amp; Publicity at Book Soup on the Sunset Strip, punk rocker, and co-editor of the forthcoming essay collection\u00a0Yes Is the Answer: And Other Prog Rock Tales. 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