## Metadata - Author: [[Jennifer Egan]] - Full Title: A Visit From the Goon Squad - Category: #books ## Highlights - He began weighing each musical choice, drawing out his argument through the songs themselves—Patti Smith’s ragged poetry (but why did she quit?), the jock hardcore of Black Flag and the Circle Jerks giving way to alternative, that great compromise, down, down, down to the singles he’d just today been petitioning radio stations to add, husks of music, lifeless and cold as the squares of office neon cutting the blue twilight. ([Location 512](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0036S4C6G&location=512))