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Please Step Back
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Thursday Apr 30, 2009 (7:30pm)
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It's no accident that Rock Foxx, the charismatic and self-destructive center of New Yorker editor Ben Greenman's new novel Please Step Back, bears more than a passing resemblance to another, certain outrageous bandleader of a group of multiracial, mixed-gender funk rockers who topped the charts with socially conscious songs. But Please Step Back is more than a veiled Behind the Music of one of SF's more famous native sons. Greenman uses Foxx's meteoric rise and fall to explore the darkness and cynicism that befell the love generation, and to question our culture's lingering nostalgia for the '60s. Plus, how many novels these days come with their own theme song?
