Farzana Versey Remembers her Walkman

Jeremy Hatch bio ↓ · July 2nd, 2009 · filed under Other

“I do not have an iPod. The Walkman is 30 now. I resisted it, as I have resisted several new innovations. I still have an old cassette player. I like the comfort of things I am used to – smells, sounds, images. It is as though wrinkles tell so many tales and I like hearing the stories of a time gone by.

[The Walkman] made music mobile. … Music for me had meant something else.”

Author Farzana Versey remembers her Walkman.

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Jeremy Hatch is a writer, musician, and professional bookseller leading a cheerful, aimless life in San Francisco. He is the Junior Literary Editor of the Rumpus and has a blog which he updates once in a while. More from this author →

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