Marc Spitz
Marc Spitz (October 2, 1969 – February 4, 2017) was an American music journalist, author and playwright. Spitz's writings on rock and roll and popular culture appeared in "Spin" (where he was a Senior Writer) as well as "The New York Times", "Maxim", "Blender", "Harp", "Nylon" and the "New York Post". He was a contributing music writer for "Vanity Fair". Biography. Born in Far Rockaway, Queens, Spitz was the author of the novels, "How Soon Is Never", and "Too Much, Too Late" and the biographies "" (with Brendan Mullen), "Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times and Music  of Green Day", "" and "". He appears in the anthologies: "The Encyclopedia of Ex-es", "Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit" and "Rock N’ Roll Cage Match: Music’s Greatest Rivalries Decided". His books have been translated and published in French, Danish, German and Dutch. Spitz was a "Downtown" playwright since emerging from the Ludlow Street scene around "Todo Con Nada" in 1998. His other theatrical work includes "Retail Sluts", "The Rise and Fall of the Farewell Drugs", “"...Worry, Baby",” "The Hobo Got Too High", "I Wanna Be Adored", "Shyness Is Nice", "Gravity Always Wins", "The Name of  This Play is Talking Heads", "Your Face Is A Mess", "A Marshmallow World", "Up For Anything" and "P.S. It's Poison". "Shyness Is Nice" was selected and anthologized as one of NY Theatre's Best Plays of 2001, and its opening monologue appears in the Applause anthology "One One One: Best Men’s Monologues of the 21st Century", published in October, 2008. Spitz spoke at Columbia University (on playwrighting) and DePaul University (on journalism), and appeared as a "talking head" on MTV, VH1, MSNBC. Spitz died in New York City, at the age of 47.