Commonplaces

By Josh Russell

For Theodor Adorno

Rare is the teenage son who thinks his father's Frankfurt School sociology books are cool. I listened to my dad's LPs when I was a little kid, but at fourteen, fifteen, sixteen no way I was dropping the needle on Chuck Berry or John Lee Hooker. Instead: cassettes of ABC and Madness and Big Country and Run DMC and the soundtrack to Beat Street. There was also no way I was going to read about how some tedious philosopher hated saxophones when I had Vonnegut and a fat omnibus of 1930s boys' aviation adventure stories my mom bought me at a library sale.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1971740004
• ISBN13: 9781971740003
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: New Michigan Press
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"