Jeff Weiss
Writer at Freelance
it’s regular but it’s not normal • EIC at POW Mag • Founder: @powrecordings • "Waiting For Britney Spears" out June 10th on MCD/FSG • Long Live Drakeo
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3 weeks ago |
gq.com | Jeff Weiss
Jeff Weiss’s Waiting For Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly is a pop-star biography the way Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a journalistic account of a trip to an auto race and a district attorneys’ convention—i.e., circumstantially, but also not at all.
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publishersweekly.com | Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |Evan Osnos |Jeff Weiss |Maggie Gram
Chris DeVille. St. Martin’s, $29 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-36338-1Stereogum managing editor DeVille debuts with a comprehensive and colorful account of the rise, fall, corporatization, and partial revival of indie rock. He traces the genre’s roots to 1990s grunge, and charts a rise fueled by internet fan communities and music sites like Pitchfork that catapulted unknown bands to fame.
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publishersweekly.com | Quinn Slobodian |Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |Evan Osnos |Jeff Weiss
Quinn Slobodian. Zone, $29.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-890951-91-7Despite “lazy media framing” that presents Trump-era populism as a backlash against capitalism, many of the movement’s “supposed disruptors of the status quo” are in fact agents of a new capitalist vanguard, according to this incisive account.
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publishersweekly.com | Anelise Chen |Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |Evan Osnos |Jeff Weiss
Anelise Chen. One World, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-9848-0184-5Novelist and Columbia University creative writing professor Chen (So Many Olympic Exertions) serves up an offbeat memoir inspired by her mother’s habitual misspelling of “calm down” as “clam down” in text messages. After the end of Chen’s marriage, her mother’s inadvertent typo prompted introspection about Chen’s tendencies to retreat, self-protect, and stay silent.
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publishersweekly.com | Jill Bialosky |Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |Evan Osnos |Jeff Weiss
The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My MotherPoet, novelist, and Norton executive editor Bialosky (Asylum) delivers a nuanced portrait of her mother, Iris, who died in 2020. Telling the story in reverse, Bialosky opens with Iris’s death from Alzheimer’s while in hospice in Ohio, then highlights the challenges of caring for an aging parent long-distance from New York City: “The painful absence and loneliness at the core of her life frightens me,” Bialosky writes.
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Walshy Fire curated a fantastic book of vintage dancehall flyers from Jamaica to NYC, Tokyo to London to LA. He spoke to POW about nostalgia for the analog hand-drawn era, the necessity of human creativity, and a KRS and Shabba Ranks show of '90s lore. https://t.co/mz436nQ3TY https://t.co/aHRmsZMsjW
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