Going Into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man

by Robert Christgau

Book Overview

One of our great essayists and journalists--the Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau--takes us on a heady tour through his life and times in this vividly atmospheric and visceral memoir that is both a love letter to a New York long past and a tribute to the transformative power of art.

Lifelong New Yorker Robert Christgau has been writing about pop culture since he was twelve and getting paid for it since he was twenty-two, covering...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062238795
• ISBN13: 9780062238795
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Dey Street Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"