ANTI-NOSTALGIA
“Never before have I read a book of fiction in which I felt almost like a background character,” writes ex-MTV correspondent John Norris about Alex Kazemi’s provocative new novel.
John Norris is a veteran music journalist, who began his career as a writer, editor, correspondent and anchor at MTV News. Following MTV, he served as Managing Editor and Host of the music discovery site Noisevox, and as Supervising Producer of News at Fuse. His freelance work includes music and culture writing for The Daily Beast, GQ, Esquire, Billboard, VICE, NYLON, SPIN, Pigeons & Planes, VMAN and Lyrical Lemonade. He has written, hosted and moderated programming for Sirius XM, The Recording Academy, South By Southwest, and the Bonnaroo and Sasquatch music festivals. He is a longtime New Yorker and self-described "retrophobe," a word his brother insists he invented.
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AND THE WINNER IS...
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