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The Winner-Take-All Culture: Beyonce’ Edition

October 9, 2014 by Scott Timberg

[contextly_auto_sidebar id="s7QjDjoKc7tKlcAxYUDRApP9riUN4cz9"] NO, you're not reading an article from the Onion, but rather a news report of an an extreme and literal instance of the winner-take all culture. This brief story from Poynter, "News station lays off journalists, will play Beyoncé songs instead," quotes Houston Chronicle reporter David Barron: Radio One owns the station, known as … [Read more...]

Does Literary Fiction Exist? And, James Franco

April 23, 2014 by Scott Timberg

[contextly_auto_sidebar id="g3odon0mIwRtjJWQanUkJ6akwgtLE0cd"] IS "literary fiction" just another genre? Over the years I've engaged in numerous discussions with writers, fans, and fellow journalists on the matter. Generally I've been sympathetic to the side that says that demeaned genres -- science fiction and hardboiled detective fiction especially -- can be as smart, well-written and … [Read more...]

Sigmund Freud vs. Britney Spears

November 1, 2009 by Scott Timberg

WHEN i heard that a biographer had gone into therapy impersonating britney spears (that's the way it was teed up to me), i thought, this guy must be very cynical, or have really bad taste in music. or maybe both.but the young biographer i met at a cafe in venice beach was an engaging, earnest lad from a small town in yorkshire who had made unorthodox use of a therapist to gain insight into the … [Read more...]

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.

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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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