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The Thin White Dunc: A Jaded Dandy in 1970s New York
A portrait of punk-era New York’s art and music scenes.
Music
"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie
The Second City of Black America
Greg Barnhisel reviews “Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance.”
Careers of Evil: On the Migration of a Three-Word Phrase from Lautréamont to J. K. Rowling, with Stops at Patti Smith and the Blue Öyster Cult
Howard Rodman on the origins of the phrase “career of evil,” with stops at Patti Smith and the Blue Öyster Cult.
New Black Gothic
Sheri-Marie Harrison on "This Is America," "Get Out," "Sing, Unburied, Sing," and the new black Gothic.
All the Poets (Musicians on Writing): Stuart Murdoch
In this monthly series, Scott Timberg interviews musicians on the literary work that has inspired and informed their music.
Rock of Ages
Frank Johnson finds solace in Christina Zanfagna's "Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels."
Dylanizing the Great American Songbook
Tim Riley on Bob Dylan’s “Triplicate” (2017).
All the Poets (Musicians on Writing): Ira Kaplan
In this monthly series, Scott Timberg interviews musicians on the literary work that has inspired and informed their music.
New Formation: Janelle Monáe’s Radical Emotion Pictures
"Dirty Computer" finds Monáe not only inserting herself into traditions that can’t fully contain her but resculpting them in her likeness.
Bach at the Burger King
When the music of Vivaldi and Mozart are used to repel the homeless from sidewalks and Burger Kings, does it still glorify the dignity of humanity?
Genius as Circumstance
Yuval Sharon on the idea of genius.
All the Poets (Musicians on Writing): Courtney Barnett
In this monthly series, Scott Timberg interviews musicians on the literary work that has inspired and informed their music.
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