Photo by Deborah Feingold Hi friends! In case you missed it, I was thrilled to write about one of my all time fave records for my first New Yorker piece..
Sometimes, when I can't face my deadlines, I have this conversation with myself: "Hey Beth, that review/feature/cultural meditation isn’t going to write itself. Every minute that ticks by is one.
Ari Surdoval’s debut novel is a teenage fever dream of stunted ambition and enduring hope. Following the escapades of a group of adolescents in New England raised under the storm.
I was hoping to avoid this, but I guess in my heart I knew it would probably have to happen. And anyway, it was the least I could do for.
Over at The Ringer I wrote about the fortieth anniversary of Elvis Costello's Get Happy!!, a remarkable record released in the aftermath of a humiliating controversy that nearly cratered his.
Over at The Ringer, I wrote about the 35th anniversary of The Talking Heads' amazing concert film Stop Making Sense and the ways in which David Byrne and Jonathan Demme's.
Over at The Ringer, I wrote about the 30th anniversary of The Mekons Rock 'N' Roll, a record which utterly blew my mind the first time I heard it many.
Over at the Oxford American, I wrote about Warren Zevon's 1982 MTV concert film, the strange tug of his magnetic songwriting and the casualties of his checkered life. Best of.
