The Tao of Wu (Riverhead)
Co-author of the New York Times bestseller, with Wu Tang Clan mastermind RZA
The Wu-Tang Manual (Riverhead)
Co-author of the magisterial guide to hip-hop’s greatest mystery.
“Will.i.am and the Science of Global Pop Domination,” among works from Nate Chinen, Sasha Frere-Jones, Kelefa Sanneh, Ann Powers, and others selected by Daphne Carr and New Yorker music critic Alex Ross
“The Ghost of Kurt Cobain” among works by Robert Christgau, Robert Hilburn, Greil Marcus, Nicole White, and others selected by Paul Bresnick and music writer/hoax memoirist JT LeRoy.
Contributed chapters to this “vivid review of the hip hop world through the eyes and ears of more than 50 of the finest music writers and cultural critics,” per editor Danyel Smith
The Film Comment essay, “In Bloom,” on the negative capability of Bill Murray, was included in NYU’s textbook essay anthology, Writing the Essay, Art in the World, The World Through Art, appearing alongside work by (ahem) Sigmund Freud.