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Scott Timberg on Creative Destruction

MAN MEN, RICHARD YATES AND MY DEBUT IN KENTUCKY

January 7, 2009 by Scott Timberg


….here is a piece i wrote for my good friend david daley, who is an editor at the Louisville paper and runs the cool fiction site “five chapters” … he gave me chance to get into my love of overlooked aspects of the early postwar period… of course there is much else to say about those years. i wish i’d had room to get into the tradition of social criticism, on topics like alienation and “the cultural contradictions of capitalism” that were born in that period.

speaking of, i rec all serious readers check out rich perlstein’s goldwater book, “before the storm,” when it is reissued this spring. 
if any of you shared a prosecco with me one New Year’s Eve you could see i was sporting what i call my “Mad Men tie.” 
Photo credit: Flickr user 2

Filed Under: '50s, '60s, books, yates

Scott Timberg

I'm a longtime culture writer and editor based in Los Angeles; my book "CULTURE CRASH: The Killing of the Creative Class" came out in 2015. My stories have appeared in The New York Times, Salon and Los Angeles magazine, and I was an LA Times staff writer for six years. I'm also an enthusiastic if middling jazz and indie-rock guitarist. (Photo by Sara Scribner) Read More…

Culture Crash, the Book

My book came out in 2015, and won the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award. The New Yorker called it "a quietly radical rethinking of the very nature of art in modern life"

I urge you to buy it at your favorite independent bookstore or order it from Portland's Powell's.

Culture Crash

Here is some information on my book, which Yale University Press published in 2015. (Buy it from Powell's, here.) Some advance praise: With coolness and equanimity, Scott Timberg tells what in less-skilled hands could have been an overwrought horror story: the end of culture as we have known … [Read More...]

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