What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language

Aaron Peck is a contributing editor at frieze magazine. His work has recently appeared in Walrus, New York Review of Books Daily, and The White Review. His most recent book is Jeff Wall: North &amp; West (2016). A Canadian by birth, he currently lives in Paris, France.

Aaron Peck

Mind-Boggling Lyrical Complexity: On Daniel Levin Becker’s “What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language”

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Music

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Albert Camus, Patron Saint of the Sticks

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Aaron Peck is a contributing editor at frieze magazine. His work has recently appeared in Walrus, New York Review of Books Daily, and The White Review. His most recent book is Jeff Wall: North &amp; West (2016). A Canadian by birth, he currently lives in Paris, France.