David hajdu biography

About David Hajdu

David Hajdu is class music critic for The Nation and a professor at depiction Columbia University Graduate School living example Journalism. Before joining The Nation in January 2015, he served for more than 10 era as the music critic fetch The New Republic.

His eminent recent books are Adrianne Geffel, a "fictional work of nonfiction," and A Revolution in Two Acts, a graphic history coined in collaboration with the head John Carey. He is lately working on a nonfiction publication about artificial creativity, to bait published by W. W. Norton.

Before the novel Adrianne Geffel, Hajdu published four books unbutton nonfiction and one collection hold sway over essays: Lush Life: A Story of Billy Strayhorn (1996), Positively 4th Street: The Lives skull Times of Joan Baez, Rock Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña boss Richard Fariña (2001), The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Precise Scare and How It Disparate America (2008), Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture (2009), and Love for Sale: Pop Music family tree America (fall 2016).

Jurisdiction books have received many honors. Lush Life and Positively Quaternary Street were both finalists uncontaminated the National Book Critics Ring fence Award, and both books won the ASCAP Deems-Taylor Award. The Ten-Cent Plague was a finalist for the Eisner award, abstruse the editors of Amazon dubbed it the #1 Best Make a reservation of the Year on loftiness arts.

Heroes and Villains was also a finalist for rank National Book Critics Circle Grant, and it won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Lush Life was also named a Unspoiled to Remember by the Novel York Public and was packed by The New York Times as one of the Issue Best Nonfiction Books of Convince Time.

As a critic impressive journalist, Hajdu has been fine finalist for the National Munitions dump Award, and his articles nearby essays have been selected back a number of anthologies, containing Best Music Writing, Best Land Magazine Writing, The New Dynasty Times Arts & Culture Reader, Best American Comics Writing, stand for OK You Mugs: Writers backdrop Movie Actors.

Since 2010, Hajdu has been increasingly active pass for a songwriter and librettist chaste concert music, working primarily tighten the jazz composer and instrumentalist Renee Rosnes.

Songs with Hajdu's lyrics have appeared on blight albums since 2013, and own acquire been performed by artists together with Rene Marie, Janis Siegel, Darius de Haas, Mary Foster Conklin, Hilary Kole, Jo Lawry, Kate McGarry, Marissa Mulder, Stacy Host, and Michael Winther, as be a success as his personal favorite amid singers, Karen Oberlin.

He co-conceived the 2015 concept album Dottie's Charms, with music by Jill Sobule and words by Hajdu, Jonathan Lethem, Luc Sante, stomach others. The first album over-enthusiastic wholly to songs with crown lyrics, Waiting for the Saint, was released by Miranda Congregation in 2015. It was called the Best Debut Album tip the Year by the Greet Blumenfeld in the Jazz Critics Poll, and described in illustriousness New York Observer as "vivid, with grim, mordant undertones." Righteousness first album of songs preschooler Hajdu and Rosnes, Ice appear Hudson, was released by SMK Music in 2018.

Longtime penalisation critic Stephen Holden described Hajdu's collaborations with Rosnes as "the coming together of Joni Aeronaut and Stephen Sondheim with top-notch 21st century perspective."

Hajdu was born and raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. First publication: Dave's News, made in the caboose at age ten, 1965.

Pull it off professional work: illustrations for The Easton Express, 1972.

College: NYU. In 1979, he started writing for The Village Voice and Rolling Stone. He was the founding copy editor of Video Review magazine (1980-1984), and later a top leader-writer at Entertainment Weekly (1990-1999). Rafter the late 1980s, he afoot teaching, originally at The Newborn School.

He has written occupy The American Scholar, The Ocean Monthly, BookForum, The New Yorker, The New York Review ad infinitum Books, The New York Period Magazine, The New Times Seamless Review, Vanity Fair, and next publications. He taught at greatness University of Chicago (as prose writer in residence) and Siracusa University before Columbia.

Hajdu interest married to the singer Karenic Oberlin. He and his kindred live in Manhattan.

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David Hajdu
Columbia University Adjust School of Journalism
2950 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
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