{"product_id":"everything-is-an-afterthought-kevin-avery-9781606994757","title":"Everything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson","description":"What 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Little Sandy Review\u003c\/em\u003e and managing editor of \u003cem\u003eSing Out!, \u003c\/em\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\u003cbr\u003e During 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\u003cbr\u003e But in 1982, he walked away from it all -- \u003cem\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/em\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\u003cbr\u003e How 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 \u003cem\u003eEverything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writing of Paul Nelson\u003c\/em\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 This unique anthology-biography compiles Nelson's best works (some of it previously unpublished) while also providing a vivid account of his private and public lives.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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin Avery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1606994751\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781606994757\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/21\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2011 pg. 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2012 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLJ Best Books of Year\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2011 pg. 56","brand":"Kevin Avery","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48799122718975,"sku":"9781606994757","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/everything-is-an-afterthought-kevin-avery-9781606994757","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}