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Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

Ben Ratliff explores the fascinating relationship between music and motion in this personal reflection. Through his daily runs, Ratliff breaks down how movement can affect the way we all listen to and enjoy sound.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION

A revelatory exploration of the relationship between music and running by one of our foremost music writers

Out the front door, across the street, down the hill, and into Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. This is how Ben Ratliff’s runs started most days of the week for about a decade. Sometimes listening to music, not always. Then, at the beginning of the pandemic, he began taking notes about what he listened to. He wondered if a body ...

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