Everything Is an Afterthought - The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson

Informationen zum Autor Kevin Avery has published over 300 articles and short stories. His books books include the bio-anthology Everything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson (which The New York Times selected as "Editors' Choice") and two books based on previously unpublished interviews by Paul Nelson. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. Klappentext A pioneering Rolling Stone critic gets his due. Zusammenfassung Paul Nelson was! according to Bob Dylan! “a folk-music scholar”who later wrote criticism at Rolling Stone as the last in a great tradition ofrecord-review editors that included Jon Landau! Dave Marsh! and Greil Marcus.But in 1982! Nelson walked away from it all — Rolling Stone! his friends!and rock ’n’ roll. By the time he died in his New York Cityapartment in 2006 at the age of 70! almost everything he’d written hadbeen relegated to back issues of old music magazines. With Paul Nelson’sposthumous blessing! Kevin Avery spent four years researching and writingEverything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writing of Paul Nelson. This uniqueanthology-biography compiles Nelson’s best works (some of it previouslyunpublished) while also providing a vivid account of his private and publiclives. Avery interviewed almost 100 of Paul Nelson’s friends! family! andcolleagues! including several of the artists about whom he’d written.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Avery, Avery Kevin, KEVIN AVERY
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2011
• EAN: 9781606994757
• ISBN: 978-1-60699-475-7
• No. of pages: 500
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Rock, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Pop Music, Music reviews & criticism, Popular Music, Music reviews and criticism