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IT’S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL
Edited by Janice Eidus and John Kastan
David R. Godine, 291 pages, $16.95
Buddy Holly and Marvin Gaye rub fictional shoulders with Kurt Cobain and Grace Slick in this rambunctious anthology of short stories, while less-famous musicians toil away in garages and basements. In Geoffrey Becker’s “Blues Town,” one of the collection’s best stories, a teenager foils his father’s audition as guitarist for an up-and-coming band. In Kim Addonizio’s wry “Til There Was You,” the members of a band quit to take jobs such as banquet captain at the Ramada Inn.