If writing and rock music go together like peanut butter and jelly, this New York Times essay is the diagonally cut sandwich bread that delivers them to your taste buds.
In it, J. Robert Lennon probes the economic and artistic similarities between the two art forms, and recounts his experiences as both an author and a musician.
Perhaps most importantly, he pays tribute to the writers who, like many rock bands, have “reminded us…that common experience could serve as the basis for transcendent literary art.”
