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Scott Timberg on Creative Destruction

Great New Novel

December 28, 2010 by Scott Timberg

THIS week the first novel by a former indie rock guitarist comes out on Crown. The novel, The Metropolis Case, has a lot to do with opera, though you don’t have to be an opera fan to enjoy the book. If you dig Tristan und Isolde — or have every been transported by music — the novel will have special meaning and depth.

HERE  is my review from today’s New York Times.

I pick up a lot of novels, old and new, with hopes of getting through them. In the case of The Metropolis Case, I was drawn into the characters’ fates after a few pages.

The novel is also set more or less in the opera world, but you shouldn’t let that scare you any more than the ballet in Black Swan: Gallaway writes as if those old anxieties surrounding “high” culture have worn themselves out.

Filed Under: classical music, indie, literary, wagner

Comments

  1. Matt G says

    December 28, 2010 at 11:59 am

    Scott — it’s always a thrill to have someone “get” your work on so many levels, and to have such a review appear in the NYT is really a dream. Best wishes for the new year! Matt G

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…

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