Adam Sobsey’s new book is A Jewish Appendix (2025), published by Spuyten Duyvil. He is the author of Chrissie Hynde: A Musical Biography (University of Texas Press, 2017) and co-author of Bull City Summer: A Season at the Ballpark (Daylight Books, 2014).
Adam Sobsey
Articles
Connecting the Dots
Adam Sobsey talks with Nell Zink and explores her new novel “Sister Europe.”
The Paisley Underground Redux
Adam Sobsey revisits the early-1980s Los Angeles indie-pop scene.
The Real Pain of “A Real Pain”
Adam Sobsey analyzes the new film “A Real Pain” and his own search for his Jewish roots.
A Strange Career
Adam Sobsey reviews Jeffrey Meyers’s “James Salter: Pilot, Screenwriter, Novelist.”
W. G. Sebald’s Deepfakes: On “Shadows of Reality”
Adam Sobsey reviews “Shadows of Reality: A Catalogue of W.G. Sebald’s Photographic Materials,” a collection from the works of novelist and essayist W. G. Sebald.
There’s Always Tomorrow: On Ursula Parrott and Marsha Gordon’s “Becoming the Ex-Wife”
Adam Sobsey reviews Marsha Gordon’s “Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott,” a biography of the writer and celebrity.
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