ENG 100: Complete all required tasks (questions and written response)
CP ENG IV: Answer questions only
Independent Study: Write 1-2 response only
Amanda Brown Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape (Fiction)
Recommended citation:
Brown, Amanda. “Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape (Fiction).” Patterns for College Writing: A
Rhetorical Reader and Guide. 12th ed. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen Mandell, eds. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012. 520-521. Print.
Amanda Brown graduated with a B.F.A. in literature, writing, and publishing from Emerson College in 2002. As an undergraduate, she wrote “Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape” for a class assignment that required students to write a “list story.” With her husband, Brown runs the Los Angeles– based record label Not Not Fun. Her first novel, Drain You, will be published by HarperCollins in 2012.…show more content… Since Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, however, music has become increasingly portable, accessible, and ubiquitous. Coin-operated jukeboxes appeared at the end of the nineteenth century; the first portable radio was introduced by Zenith in 1924; and vinyl 33 and 45 rpm records became dominant in the 1950s, later competing with eight-track tapes and then with compact cassettes. In the 1980s, home tape decks and devices like the Walkman led to the popularity of the hand-made “mix-tape”: a personal compilation of songs both reflecting the idiosyncratic taste of its creator and communicating a specific message to its
