Going into the City
2015 memoir by Robert Christgau
Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man is a 2015 memoir by American music critic Robert Christgau.
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According to NPR, the memoir "takes the reader through the music that inspired [Christgau's] career, the women who sharpened his work over the years, and a childhood spent in Queens, where he learned from the DJ who gave rock 'n' roll its name." Christgau also pays tribute to the influence of his wife and fellow writer, Carola Dibbell. "Her aesthetic responsiveness was unending", he wrote.
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