The “Dean of American Rock Critics” takes us on an ultra-personal tour through his life that
is both a love letter to a New York long past and a tribute to the transformative power of art. Christgau has chronicled many key cultural shifts of the last half
century and revolutionized the status of
the music critic in the
process. Going Into
the City is a look back
at the upbringing that
grounded him, the history that transformed
him and the music,
books and films that
showed him the way.
Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic of a Young Man
By Robert Christgau
(hardcover) $27.99
