The Pulitzer Prize-winner’s work always feels honest, as writers have found when they dive deep into his literary influences.
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Posted inCommentary, Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction
Bob Dorough and the Magic Number
How the songwriter’s “Schoolhouse Rock!” taught an entire generation.
Posted inNonfiction
Finding the Soundtrack to My Desert Life
In the ’90s, discovering the music of Friends of Dean Martinez helped Aaron Gilbreath stop running and appreciate life in his native Arizona.
Posted inArts & Culture, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
Everyone’s Gotta Make a Living
Composer Philip Glass was a plumber, a mover, a taxi driver — and as a child, a clerk in his father’s record store, where he learned a key lesson.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Miles and Coltrane’s Milwaukee Gigs That Never Happened
They were scheduled to play Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1959. So why did the gigs never happen?
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
Tearing the Heart from the Music Industry
Digitization has removed the humanity from the music business, from collaboration to mutual respect.
Posted inArts & Culture
Longreads Best of 2017: Arts & Culture Writing
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in arts and culture writing.
Posted inArts & Culture, Covers
Jay-Z Opens Up About Race in America, Therapy, and ‘4:44’
The hip-hop artist sits down for a wide-ranging interview with NYT executive editor Dean Baquet.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Quotes, Unapologetic Women, Writing
On the Contentious Borders of the American South
Zandria F. Robinson narrates her coming of age Memphis while examining contemporary southernness.
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech
Destroying Music, One Playlist at a Time
Spotify’s corporate-branded playlists are not the solution to the music industry’s problems. They’re a new problem.