Everything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson

by Paul Nelson and Kevin Avery

Book Overview

What happened to Paul Nelson? In the '60s, he pioneered rock & 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 The Little Sandy Review and managing editor of Sing Out!, 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.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606994751
• ISBN13: 9781606994757
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher