Ben Greenman
Ben Greenman is an editor at The New Yorker and the author of the underground indie hits Please Step Back, Superbad, and A Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both. His short fiction and music criticism has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Paris Review, and...
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Ben Greenman is an editor at The New Yorker and the author of the underground indie hits Please Step Back, Superbad, and A Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both. His short fiction and music criticism has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Paris Review, and he writes a regular comedy column for McSweeney's. He lives in Brooklyn.
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something to food about by Questlove falls into many different categories. It is a coffee table book; the cover and the photography are conversation starters. It is a documentation of interviews. It is an academic book for it highlights the food philosophy of both Questlove and these chefs. Ultimate...
Finally, a fun read to break up my streak of utterly disheartening non-fiction. He's reserved, for sure, but I appreciate hearing his thoughts on his favorite artists, the music industry, and culture, rather than a typically salacious/confessional memoir. And you know the man has stories. He's super...
“Music has the power to stop time. When I listen to songs, I'm transported back to the moment of their birth, which is sometimes even before the moment of my birth. Old songs, rock or soul or blues, still connect with me because the human emotions in them, whether jealousy or rage or hope, are recog...
At face value, this is one guy's story about the creation of his band. But more importantly, this is a study of how a life lived through and around music can be rewarding and inspiring. Also, ?uestlove has a tone that sounds like the smartest best friend you've ever had.
Didn't grab me this time around, I'll try again later. The stuff he had in that compilation Jez did was killer, so I want to dig into his work more.
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