Happening now at The LA Review of Books: a video premiere for my band The Paranoid Style's new single “Barney Bubbles!” Plus a great talk with Paul Gorman, the curator of the late, great artist the song pays tribute to! Check it out if this...
Author: Elizabeth Nelson
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.
In case you missed it! I'm so proud to share my profile on Lowell George from Oxford American's new Southern Music Issue. Lowell is beyond a paradox and writing about.
As a longtime admirer of the critic, literature professor and decorated poet Joshua Clover, I was delighted to recently be a part of a panel discussion regarding his new book-length treatise on Jonathan Richman's world historic classic "Roadrunner." Clover's book is the first in a...
In case you missed it, over at Pitchfork I wrote about the new vinyl reissue of John Prine's wonderful 2005 LP Fair & Square. He was the funniest, most humane.
Lawyers Guns & Money favorites the Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera turned twenty (20!) on 9/11/2021. Patterson Hood's account of the crazy, inspired thought process behind this novelistic masterpiece is.
Well, hey there! In case you missed it, over at the Ringer, I wrote about Ted Lasso’s place in the grand tradition of “players coaches” like Joe Gibbs and "Sparky" Anderson: men whose front-facing kindness and constant self-effacement was the thin veneer obscuring a competitiveness...
William Corrin As an individual who has spent the past two decades working in the field of education policy, I know too well how diabolical and difficult a problem it.
Thomas Boswell, a towering figure in sports journalism for decades, is retiring today from his job as a Washington Post columnist. Summarizing his legacy is a task better suited to.
Over at the New York Times Magazine, I wrote about the hilariously norm-breaking rivalry between the muscular golfers Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau, and its implications for the sports world moving forward. Check it out if this seems like the type of paper-of-record content you'd...
I think you know why I’m writing -- it’s Clint Eastwood’s birthday! Happy Birthday legendary American-weirdo filmmaker!! Your preoccupations with jazz and war and covered bridges have defined seventy years.
Here's two big ways to win big if you are looking for some solid music content: For those of you who like new-old things, I reviewed the new Joe Strummer.