Going into the city
Subtitle: portrait of a critic as a young man
By: Robert Christgau
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780062238795
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Music journalists; Biography; Music critics
Description: The Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau takes us on a heady tour through his life and times in this atmospheric and visceral memoir that is both a love letter to a New York long past and a tribute to the transformative power of art.
Notes: "A memoir"--Dust jacket.
Table of contents: title: The eighty-hour week; title: The two sides of Murray Street; title: The wonderful world of Jews; title: Nonconformism can be fun; title: Vacillations; title: American studies; title: The high '60s; title: Aftermath; title: Like a horse and a carriage; title: Four owners, six editors, one paper; title: Bon bon vie.