{"product_id":"9798988670148-corner-boy-loiterings-new-and-old","title":"Corner Boy","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLoiterings New and Old\u003cbr\u003eThe definitive, lavishly illustrated collection of music writing, memoir, and reportage from the redoubtable Nik Cohn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The best writer about pop music . an inspiration' Jarvis Cocker,\u003ci\u003e BBC Radio 6 Music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore rock criticism had rules, Nik Cohn was already breaking them. \u003ci\u003eCorner Boy \u003c\/i\u003egathers Nik Cohn’s nonfiction from the 1960s to the present into a riotous self-portrait. Moving from Derry to London, New York, and New Orleans, he 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book draws from across Cohn’s career, including \u003ci\u003eAwopbopaloobop Alopbamboom\u003c\/i\u003e, his groundbreaking history of pop music; T\u003ci\u003eoday 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; \u003ci\u003eYes We Have No\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eTriksta\u003c\/i\u003e, about his misadventures in the New Orleans rap scene. The book includes the new essay “Apprehension,” a narrative of his 1983 arrest in New York for drug trafficking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited by distinguished critic Ben Ratliff, the collection features long-form conversations that bridge Nik Cohn’s peripatetic, Zelig-like life. Complete with full-color images drawn from Muriel, his ever-evolving, sixty-year photo-collage, \u003ci\u003eCorner Boy \u003c\/i\u003eis the vivid record of a life spent bearing witness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58069961146742,"sku":"9798988670148","price":20.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41673411_4e8616a6-2c48-45e1-8759-022017a0eb47.jpg?v=1781800658","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9798988670148-corner-boy-loiterings-new-and-old","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}