{"product_id":"corner-boy-nik-cohn-9798988670148","title":"Corner Boy: Loiterings New and Old","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe best writer about pop music . . . an inspiration.\" --Jarvis Cocker, BBC Radio 6 Music\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive, lavishly illustrated collection of music writing, memoir, and reportage from the redoubtable Nik Cohn.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore rock criticism had rules, Nik Cohn was already breaking them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCorner Boy: Loiterings New and Old\u003c\/i\u003e gathers Nik Cohn's nonfiction from the 1960s to the present into a single, riotous self-portrait. Moving from Derry to\u003cbr\u003eLondon, New York, and New Orleans, Cohn writes about pop stars and boxers, club kids and hustlers, painters, prophets, disco dancers, drag queens, lowlifes, nobodies, and the half-mythic figures who live at the edge of the action.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book draws from across Cohn's career, including \u003ci\u003eAwopbopaloobop Alopbamboom\u003c\/i\u003e, from 1968, his ground-breaking history of pop music from its beginning;\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eToday There Are No Gentlemen\u003c\/i\u003e, about English men's fashion; \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, a soul-biography of Broadway (the street); \u003ci\u003eYes We Have No\u003c\/i\u003e, a road trip through an alternative England, seen as a banana republic, just before the new millennium; and \u003ci\u003eTriksta\u003c\/i\u003e, the saga of Cohn's misadventures in the New Orleans rap scene, as a would-be bounce impresario. Here are some of Cohn's earliest published writings, in London's \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e, at age nineteen, as well as his most recent: \"Apprehension,\" written in 2025, an 8,000-word narrative of his arrest in New York City, in 1983, for drug trafficking.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited by distinguished critic Ben Ratliff, the collection features long-form conversations that bridge Cohn's peripatetic, Zelig-like life. Complete with full-color images drawn largely from Muriel, Cohn's ever-evolving, sixty-year photo-collage, \u003ci\u003eCorner Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is unique and essential--the definitive record of a life spent bearing witness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nik Cohn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798988670148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ZE Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Nik Cohn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48659703759103,"sku":"9798988670148","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_34429178-5b34-4fc8-b8d1-8a6c8dab8271.jpg?v=1781202875","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/corner-boy-nik-cohn-9798988670148","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}