Topic: David Hajdu
The National Book Critics Circle will announce the winners of its annual book awards tonight. Dancing in the Dark by Morris Dickstein (W. W. Norton & Company, 2009). Dickstein has written a sprawling, ambitious cultural history of the Great Depression-dissecting everything from working-man ...
In his autobiography, Miles Davis called musicians Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Anderson and Art Blakely by their names, but he referred to Billy Eckstine simply as B. (He described B's sound as the " ") Profiling Eckstine in his new book Heroes and Villains ...
Aspects of the topic Positively 4th Street are discussed in the following places at Britannica. (Her relationship with Dylan and with her sister and brother-in-law, the folksinging duo Mimi and Richard Farina, is chronicled in David Hajdu's Positively 4th Street [2001].
Author David Hajdu's Columbia University office is a museum of his subjects' histories. Photos of jazz greats featured in his first book, Lush Life, adorn the west walls, replete with autographs; images of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and the Greenwich ...
At seven years old, the Vegas Valley Book Festival is demonstrating how truly grown-up it is.By celebrating comic books.Comic books and graphic novels are the focus of a substantial Saturday expo at the free festival, the citys largest annual literary ...
In the early '50s, German-born psychiatrist Fredric Wertham wrote a shallow, unsubstantiated screed that by 1954 destroyed much of the comic-book industry. Yet as David Hajdu explains in his lively history, The Ten-Cent Plague: Despite being a credentialed expert in criminal behavior ...
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Complete video at: fora.tv Author David Hajdu discusses 1950 ...2008-04-24 -
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Writer David Hajdu visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters ...2008-04-21 -
NBCC award honoree David Hajdu at ...
NBCC award honoree David Hajdu with NBCC board member Jane ...2011-09-24
