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And It Don't Stop on Substack Robert Christgau's newsletter And It Don't Stop appears three (or four) times a month on Substack. Subscribe here. Robert Christgau's Big-Hearted Theory of Pop 
Book Reports features reviews of not only the pop-music tomes you'd predict but also literary fiction, Marxist-adjacent cultural commentary, feminist debates over pornography, and even books about the past decade's financial crisis. It follows a collection that Christgau published last year, Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017, which includes Christgau's takes on, among many other things, classic rock, Kanye West, the music of Desert Storm, Lollapalooza, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and so-called guilty pleasures--a category that Christgau rejects, since, for rock critics, as he puts it, "pleasure is where meaning begins." Together, these collections make the sneaky case that Christgau is not just the Dean of American Rock Critics, his self-awarded and perhaps slightly off-putting nickname, but one of America's sharper public intellectuals of the past half century, and certainly one of its most influential--not to mention one of the better stylists in that cohort. Fun is a big part of why. --David Cantwell, The New Yorker NewsRock & Roll &: The List and the Listener After a two-year hiatus, Robert Christgau's Rock & Roll & has a new home: the online-only Barnes & Noble Review, where it will appear midmonth every month, on the Monday closest to the 15th. As planned, the revived column will cover plenty of rock & roll but have more of that second & in it. [posted by Robert Christgau on 2008-12-14] Consumer Guide (December 2008) New Consumer Guide for December 2008. Featured albums:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-12-01] Fence (Vol. 11, No. 2) Carola Dibbell's unpublished novel, A Real Piece of Work, has been excerpted in Fence, Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter 2008-2009. It is available from SPD. The table of contents is here. [posted by Webmaster on 2008-11-22] Blender (December 2008-January 2009) New reviews:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-11-19] Consumer Guide (November 2008) New Consumer Guide for November 2008. Featured albums:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-11-01] Blender (November 2008) New reviews:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-10-19] Consumer Guide (October 2008) New Consumer Guide for October 2008. Featured albums:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-10-01] Blender (October 2008) New reviews:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-09-19] America's Secret Fundamentalists TruthDig published a book review by Robert Christgau of Jeff Sharlet's The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. [posted by Webmaster on 2008-09-05] Consumer Guide (September 2008) New Consumer Guide for September 2008. Featured albums:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-09-01] Blender (September 2008) New reviews:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-08-25] Update The database was updated today, for the first time in several months. All Consumer Guide records up through August 2008 are now in the database. Sorry for any confusion these delays may have caused. [posted by Webmaster on 2008-08-16] Consumer Guide (August 2008) New Consumer Guide for August 2008. Featured albums:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-08-01] Blender (August 2008) New reviews:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-07-21] Consumer Guide (July 2008) New Consumer Guide for July 2008. Featured albums:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-07-01] Blender (July 2008) New reviews:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-06-21] Consumer Guide (June 2008) New Consumer Guide for June 2008. Featured albums:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-06-01] Blender (June 2008) New reviews:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-05-24] Consumer Guide (May 2008) New Consumer Guide for May 2008. Featured albums:
[posted by Webmaster on 2008-05-01] Blender (May 2008) New reviews:
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