The classic rock star wanted to stick it to The Man, and did so bender by selfish bender. The new rock star knows you can’t do it alone.
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A rant about Grizzly Bear and writing with an audience in mind
A rant about Grizzly Bear and writing with an audience in mind austinkleon: There’s a good profile of the band Grizzly Bear by Nitsuh Abebe with the headline-as-question: “Grizzly Bear Members Are Indie-Rock Royalty, But What Does That Buy Them in 2012?” Spoiler: not much. Everyone who’s interested in making a living in the music […]
Moderately successful indie rock groups like Grizzly Bear have found it difficult to earn a living that would place them solidly in the middle class: For much of the late-twentieth century, you might have assumed that musicians with a top-twenty sales week and a Radio City show—say, the U2 tour in 1984, after The Unforgettable […]
The Doree Chronicles: Stuff I Read This Week That Was Good
The Doree Chronicles: Stuff I Read This Week That Was Good doree: Guy Lawson, “The Stoner Arms Dealers,” Rolling Stone Jessica Hopper, “Wild Flag: An Eight-Part Examination,” Nashville Scene S.J. Culver, “On Expectations (And a Writer’s Lack of Shame),” The Awl Ben Kafka, “Pushing Paper,” Lapham’s Quarterly Nitsuh Abebe, “SXSW Diary: Pitchfork’s…
Paul Ford: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
Paul Ford was an editor at Harper’s Magazine; now he’s wandering around, looking at stuff and writing computer programs. *** Tony Judt, “Night,” New York Review of Books (January 14) This was the year of the dying critic. Most writers would do themselves, and their readers, a service by dying without all the self-elegies (“selfegies”?). […]