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1 de mar. de 2015 · Enlarge this image. "I think it's a terrible critical sin to try to be different," says Robert Christgau, whose memoir Going into the City is a look back at his five decades of music writing. Joe ...
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Buy a used copy of Going into the City : Portrait of a Critic As a Young Man book by Robert Christgau. One of our great essayists and journalists--the Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau--takes us on a heady tour through his life and times in this vividly atmospheric and visceral memoir that is both a love letter to a New York long past an ...
6 de mar. de 2015 · Pencil test. Brainpan noise. Pufferfish. Of all the cockeyed locutions of David Carr, my favorite was “the really big typewriter.” As in, what editors get to pound away on, each […]
24 de fev. de 2015 · As the self-anointed “Dean of American Rock Critics,” Christgau (Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s, 2000, etc.) could have written about the seismic cultural changes he has observed and analyzed; or about how rock music, originally dismissed as kids’ stuff, gave him a career he has never outgrown, a vocation that didn’t exist before he began writing seriously about rock ...
Going into the City: Portrait of the Critic as a Young Man. By Robert Christgau. New York: Dey Street/Harper Collins, 2015. 370 pp. ISBN 978-0-0622-3879-5 - Volume 35 Issue 2
15 de out. de 2023 · Robert Christgau, the author of 14,000 record reviews, makes the case for expansiveness as the best aesthetic.
4 de mar. de 2015 · The moment I realized Robert Christgau’s Going Into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man would be doing something different from your average writer’s memoir came—well, almost came ...
