Earlier
$34.70
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
21 November 2023
Summary
Sasha Frere-Jones’s evolution as a writer and musician with the deceptively casual intelligence that marks all of his work.
Shuttling between his first year of life (1967) and the year he wrote the book (2020), Earlier is a glorious sequence of moments, a record of the experiences that set the shape of a life. Frere-Jones’s prose floats between clinically precise fragments and emotional impressions of revelations, pleasures, and accidents. It’s a book about how lives happen a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635901962 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1635901960 |
| Author: | Sasha Frere-Jones |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 21 November 2023 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
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Critics Review
”‘If you love music, you have to fight for it,’ a former New Yorker pop-music critic writes in this slim, engaging volume… Haunted by the deaths of his father and his first wife, along with his struggles with mental illness and alcoholism, Frere-Jones excavates his life’s triumphs and failures.—The New Yorker“Sasha Frere-Jones is an institution of music criticism in an era when music critics are no longer institutions.”—Stephen Piccarella, The Nation
About The Author
Sasha Frere-Jones
Sasha Frere-Jones grew up in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. His play, We Three Kings, was recognized by the Young Playwrights Festival in 1983 and performed at The Public Theater. He completed a short film called The Take in 1986. His first band, Dolores, completed two albums in the Eighties, and he is a member of Ui, whose work is available through The Numero Group. Frere-Jones plays with Body Meπa, who record for Hausu Mountain, as well as Calvinist and Fellas. He has written about music and books since 1994, and lives in the East Village with his wife, Heidi DeRuiter.
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