And wasn't the Music from Big Pink one also a novella of some sort? By the chap behind the much-overrated Kill Your Friends? Or have I got two books of the same name mixed up?

I am reminded, now you mention it, that I have heard good things about the Celine Dion one before, but to be honest it does sound a little, well, Pitchfork. Still, maybe I'll give it a go somewhere down the line (see also John Darnielle's contribution, where I am far more interested in writer than subject).