TNR Editors' Picks: Best Books of 2011
By
David Hajdu
The New Republic
December 22, 2011
Out of the Vinyl Deeps by Ellen Willis
A lovely collection of unaffected essays on popular music by the late critic for the Village Voice and the New Yorker. Few writers of the rock era have written with Willis’s depth and heart.
- David Hajdu, Music Critic
Art and Posthumanism: Cary Wolfe in conversation with Art after Nature series editors Giovanni Aloi and Caroline Picard.
Life in Plastic: Petrochemical fantasies and synthetic sensibilities, with Caren Irr, Lisa Swanstrom, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, and Daniel Worden.
Live: A book launch for We Are Meant to Rise at Next Chapter Booksellers features Carolyn Holbrook, David Mura, Douglas Kearney, Melissa Olson, Said Shaiye, and Kao Kalia Yang.
