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  • 2 months ago | bookshop.org | Adam Sobsey

    Celebrate Black History Month with 20% off these select books. Shop here!This title will be released onMarch 15, 2025Add to WishlistBookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the worldDescriptionKnown for his smart, lively baseball writing, his acclaimed biography of the rock music legend Chrissie Hynde, and his erudite literary essays, Adam Sobsey returns with a powerful, passionate, deeply personal memoir of reckoning with his Jewish identity.

  • Oct 27, 2024 | spectrumculture.com | Adam Sobsey

    If you catch Steve Wynn on his current solo tour, you’re likely to find him commanding the stage with nothing more than a microphone, an acoustic guitar and a manuscript copy of his new memoir, I Wouldn’t Say It If It Wasn’t True. The founder of the Dream Syndicate, Wynn reads from and riffs on passages from the book all while interspersing songs both old and new.

  • Oct 16, 2024 | spectrumculture.com | Adam Sobsey

    It’s easy to look back now and say that 1964 was the year the Beatles launched the British Invasion of the American airwaves. But Having a Rave-Up! The British R&B Sounds of 1964 makes the case that there was another British Invasion going simultaneously, one that went the other way across the Atlantic: not the occupation by the Brits of the Yankee charts, but the infiltration of England, or at least London, by American Rhythm & Blues.

  • Oct 7, 2024 | spectrumculture.com | Adam Sobsey

    The archives of the past are also a repository of what might have been: “In 1993, there was one of those ‘New Faces’ articles in Rolling Stone magazine introducing, among other acts, Liz Phair, Radiohead and the Loud Family! Funny to think of a time when no one knew which of those would soon enough own the new century and rent out space to everyone else.” The author of that sentence was the Loud Family’s founder and front man Scott Miller, who was also one of the best music writers of his...

  • Oct 3, 2024 | spectrumculture.com | Adam Sobsey

    Spectrum Culture has a large focus on music criticism, so perhaps it’s appropriate to work our way into Elisa Gabbert’s new collection of mostly literary essays, Any Person Is the Only Self, by considering its single piece of music writing, “Nostalgia for a Less Innocent Time,” whose focus is on Phil Collins and hair metal.

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Adam Sobsey
Adam Sobsey @sobsey
17 Apr 25

TONIGHT! I'm reading from 'A Jewish Appendix' @FlyleafBooks in Chapel Hill. Joining me for post-reading Q&A and convo is Rabbi Hannah Bender of Judea Reform Congregation. Please come! https://t.co/aocDNw5PJR

Adam Sobsey
Adam Sobsey @sobsey
14 Apr 25

New interview w/ me about 'A Jewish Appendix' by @yonatshimron. "Samuel to Saul: ‘And you shall turn into another man.' The act of writing is an act of not only invention but self-reinvention. Every work of writing recreates you in the act of doing it." https://t.co/qyf790gztl

Adam Sobsey
Adam Sobsey @sobsey
1 Apr 25

‘A Jewish Appendix’ is launched! Here I am, yakking at the official launch reading and fête on Sunday. More events are upcoming, stay tuned! Meanwhile, you can buy the book here: https://t.co/cJCfh9nDyT https://t.co/R7q60UubC1