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24 de fev. de 2015 · “An intellectual autobiography that beautifully captures what it feels like when a cultural experience trapdoors you into a new life.” — Grantland “To read Going Into the City is to spend hours in the company of a completely sui generis critical mind, one that’s not only encyclopedically knowledgeable about mid-to-late 20th-century pop culture but capable of lapidary prose, astute ...
- Robert Christgau
24 de fev. de 2015 · “An intellectual autobiography that beautifully captures what it feels like when a cultural experience trapdoors you into a new life.” -- Grantland “To read Going Into the City is to spend hours in the company of a completely sui generis critical mind, one that’s not only encyclopedically knowledgeable about mid-to-late 20th-century pop culture but capable of lapidary prose, astute ...
- Robert Christgau
16 de fev. de 2016 · Going Into the City is a look back at the upbringing that grounded him, the history that transformed him, and the music, books, and films that showed him the way. Like Alfred Kazin’s A Walker in the City, E. B. White’s Here Is New York , Joseph Mitchell’s Up in the Old Hotel , and Patti Smith’s Just Kids , it is a loving portrait of a lost New York.
6 de mar. de 2015 · GOING INTO THE CITY. Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man. By Robert Christgau. 367 pp. Dey Street/William Morrow Publishers. $27.99. Dave Itzkoff is a culture reporter for The Times. He is working ...
16 de fev. de 2016 · Going Into the City is a look back at the upbringing that grounded him, the history that transformed him, and the music, books, and films that showed him the way. Like Alfred Kazin’s A Walker in the City, E. B. White’s Here Is New York, Joseph Mitchell’s Up in the Old Hotel, and Patti Smith’s Just Kids, it is a loving portrait of a lost ...
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 ...
23 de mai. de 2015 · But it's as an insight into what made one of the pre-eminent critics of the last 40 years really sing that this memoir really makes a mark. As the dean himself might put it, B+.
