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Scott Timberg on Creative Destruction

Poet Dana Gioia Endorses Culture Crash the Book

October 1, 2014 by Scott Timberg

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NOTORIOUS to some, beloved by others, the California poet has this to say about Culture Crash, my upcoming book:

Scott Timberg has written an original and important study. He explores some of the most pressing cultural issues affecting the arts and intellectual life with remarkable clarity. This is the first analysis of our current culture from the bottom up — the precarious situation of the individual artists, writers, and musicians who are now struggling to survive.

Dana may be best known as a recent chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, but he’s also a poet, an important/controversial critic — his Can Poetry Matter? is an essential wurl-1ork — and recently, USC professor.

Whatever you call him, I’m very glad to have Dana on the jacket of Culture Crash, which Yale University Press releases in January.

From our Department of Self-Promotion

Filed Under: creative class, Culture Crash the book, literary, poetry

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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