{"product_id":"everything-is-an-afterthought-hardcover-by-kevin-avery","title":"Everything Is an Afterthought Hardcover by Kevin Avery","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eFantagraphics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2011-11-21)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e512\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781606994757\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e567.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA pioneering \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e critic gets his due.\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat happened to Paul Nelson? In the '60s, he pioneered rock \u0026amp; roll criticism with a first-person style of writing that would later be popularized by the likes of Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer as “New Journalism.” As co-founding editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Little Sandy Review\u003c\/i\u003e and managing editor of \u003ci\u003eSing Out!,\u003c\/i\u003e he’d already established himself, to use his friend Bob Dylan’s words, as “a folk-music scholar”; but when Dylan went electric in 1965, Nelson went with him.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDuring a five-year detour at Mercury Records in the early 1970s, Nelson signed the New York Dolls to their first recording contract, then settled back down to writing criticism at Rolling Stone as the last in a great tradition of record-review editors that included Jon Landau, Dave Marsh, and Greil Marcus. Famously championing the early careers of artists like Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Rod Stewart, Neil Young, and Warren Zevon, Nelson not only wrote about them but often befriended them. Never one to be pigeonholed, he was also one of punk rock’s first stateside mainstream proponents, embracing the Sex Pistols and the Ramones.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBut in 1982, he walked away from it all — \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, his friends, and rock \u0026amp; roll.  By the time he died in his New York City apartment in 2006 at the age of seventy — a week passing before anybody discovered his body — almost everything he’d written had been relegated to back issues of old music magazines.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHow could a man whose writing had been so highly regarded have fallen so quickly from our collective memory? With Paul Nelson’s posthumous blessing, Kevin Avery spent four years researching and writing \u003ci\u003eEverything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writing of Paul Nelson\u003c\/i\u003e. This unique anthology-biography compiles Nelson’s best works (some of it previously unpublished) while also providing a vivid account of his private and public lives. Avery interviewed almost 100 of Paul Nelson’s friends, family, and colleagues, including several of the artists about whom he’d written.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Avery\u003c\/b\u003e has published over 300 articles and short stories. His books books include the bio-anthology \u003ci\u003eEverything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson\u003c\/i\u003e (which \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e selected as “Editors’ Choice”) and two books based on previously unpublished interviews by Paul Nelson. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46556045410465,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781606994757","price":38.94,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781606994757.jpg?v=1781804034","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/everything-is-an-afterthought-hardcover-by-kevin-avery","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}