Author: James Parker
James Parker is a contributing editor at The Atlantic.
Barry Hannah, 1942-2010
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He wrote in a strange, slapstick, short-circuity language…
Read This PostEmergent Occasions (1)
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Man bites doggerel in this, the first installment of a new series.
Read This PostLester Bangs
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Strictly speaking it’s Meltzer who’s the hilo hero, who inverted the language of academe in pursuit of the rock thrill, but here’s what puts Lester in the pantheon: he redefined monotony. The vicious monotony of […]
Read This PostWinds of Magic (10): Agent Zimmerman
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I had just removed his hand — gently, I hope — from my knee when the man in the off-white linen suit told me that he was the one who recruited Bob Dylan into the […]
Read This PostWinds of Magic (9): Endless Rhapsody
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If Queen had not existed, it would by no means have been necessary to invent them. Sweaty old 1973, the year of their debut album (the campily Tolkien-rocking Queen) was also the year of Elton […]
Read This PostWinds of Magic (8): The wild poet
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In December 1984 a small but memorable press conference was held in an English pub. It had just been announced that Ted Hughes was to be the new Poet Laureate, and a media reception had […]
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