Music Criticism

🇺🇸Chuck Klosterman

Literature

b. 1972

"If this person slept with your girlfriend, she would never be attractive to you again."

🇺🇸Rob Sheffield

Journalism

b. 1966

"I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you"

🇺🇸Nat Hentoff

Journalism

1925–2017

"I'm always intrigued at how few people understand that free speech encompasses a little more than the speech you like."

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Literature

Romanticism

1776–1822

"The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art."

🇬🇧Eric Blom

Music

1888–1959

"In future editions many of those who may die in the meantime will, of course, be added. All the same, it is hoped that this announcement will not start an immediate wave of suicide among singers and players."

🇺🇸Amiri Baraka

Literature

Beat Generation

1934–2014

"I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with — ... namely America..."