商品簡介
Old Records Never Die is a memoir of one man's search for his lost record collection. Journalist Eric Spitznagel sets out to scour every flea market and dusty attic in the country, every cluttered used record store, every hoarder's basement and eBay seller's home, and every radio station that employs a friend of a friend until he is reunited with the precious vinyl artifacts from his past.
As he embarks on his hero's journey, he reminisces about the actual records, the music, and the people he listened to it with—old girlfriends, his high school pals, and, most poignantly, his father, who died the year his son was born. He explores the magic of music and memory as he interweaves his adventures in record- culture with questions about our connection to our past, whether we can ever recapture it, and whether we would want to if we could.
作者簡介
Eric Spitznagel writes the "Compare & Contrast" column every Sunday for the New York Times Magazine. He is a frequent contributor to dozens of magazines, includingEsquire, Playboy, Details, and Men's Health, among many others. For three years he had a weekly interview column for Vanity Fair's website, called Awkward Question Time, and he currently has a bi-monthly music column for the MTV Hive website called Spitz Take. He's a contributing editor for The Believer Magazine and edited two humor anthologies:You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: (Vintage 2010) and Care To Make Love In That Gross Little Space Between Cars?(Vintage 2012).
He is the of six nonfiction books: Planet Baywatch (co-written with Brendan Baber, St. Martin's Press, 1996), A Guy's Guide to Dating (co-written with Brendan Baber, Main Street Books, 1998),Cigar Asphyxianado (Warner Books, 1998), The Junk Food Companion (Plume, 1999),Fast Forward (Manic D Press, 2006), and the New York Times bestseller Ron Jeremy: The (Hardest) Working Man in Show Biz (HarperCollins, 2007).
