Going Into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man

Going Into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man

Rating

7.5

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Robert Christgau is a respected rock music critic who has written over 15,000 short album reviews, primarily for The Village Voice (although all are now available online). But his biography Going Into the City is more useful as a history of late 20th century Manhattan and print journalism more broadly.