David Hajdu

David Hajdu, author of Lush Life and Positively 4th Street, teaches at Syracuse University and is music critic for The New Republic. (June 2005)

From the Review

June 23, 2005: The Royal Blues

Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington by Nadine Cohodas

October 9, 2003: Hustling Elvis

The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley by Alanna Nash

Elvis Presley by Bobbie Ann Mason

August 14, 2003: Comics for Grown-Ups

Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco, with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens

Palestine by Joe Sacco, with an introduction by Edward Said

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

August 15, 2002: He Took Manhattan

Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers by Meryle Secrest

Lorenz Hart: A Poet on Broadway by Frederick Nolan

June 21, 2001: The Spirit of the Spirit

The Spirit Archives Will Eisner

Outer Space Spirit: 1952 by Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer, and Wally Wood

A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories Will Eisner

Life on Another Planet Will Eisner

Invisible People Will Eisner

Family Matter Will Eisner

Will Eisner Reader: Seven Graphic Stories by a Comics Master

Minor Miracles Will Eisner

The Building Will Eisner

Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood Will Eisner

New York: The Big City Will Eisner

March 29, 2001: An Exchange on 'Jazz'

February 8, 2001: Not Quite All That Jazz

Jazz by Ken Burns

Jazz: A History of America's Music by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns

Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz 1954–2000 by Whitney Balliett

July 20, 2000: Fascinatin' Rhythm

Harry Partch by Bob Gilmore

Enclosure 3: Harry Partch edited and with an essay by Philip Blackburn

Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos by Harry Partch, edited and with an introduction by Thomas McGeary

Genesis of a Music by Harry Partch