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Scott Timberg on Creative Destruction

Musician Dean Wareham Raves on About Culture Crash the Book

September 24, 2014 by Scott Timberg

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ONE of my favorite indie rock musicians — a member of Galaxie 500, Luna, and Dean & Britta — has endorsed my upcoming book. Here’s what he says:

I read Scott Timberg’s pieces every week without fail. It’s great to see his book Culture Crash debunk the mumbo jumbo about the long tail, file-sharing, free information, and positive thinking — and take a hard look at what it all means for artists, musicians, critics and teachers.blackpostcards-cover

Dean is also a substantial writer himself, and I don’t just mean songs like “Tiger Lily” and “Lost in Space.” His Black Postcards: A Memoir is the best musician’s-eye-view of the alternative and indie-rock movement. Proud to have such a longtime hero of mine on board.

(From our Department of Self-Promotion)

 

Filed Under: Culture Crash the book, indie, literary, Shameless Self-Promotion

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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