Marc spitz
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Marc Spitz is a music journalist, author and playwright. Spitz's writings on rock n' roll and popular culture have appeared in Spin
(where he was a Senior Writer) as well as The New York Times
, Maxim
, Blender
, Harp
, Nylon
and the New York Post
. He is currently the music blogger for Vanity Fair
and a regular contributor to the British music magazine Uncut
.
Spitz is the author of the novels, How Soon Is Never
, and Too Much, Too Late
and the biographies We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk
(with Brendan Mullen
), Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times and Music of Green Day
, BOWIE: A Biography
and Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue
. He appears in the anthologies: The Encyclopedia of Ex-es, Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit and Rock N’ Roll Cage Match: Music’s Greatest Rivalries Decided. His books have been translated and published in French, German and Dutch.
Spitz has been an acclaimed "Downtown" playwright since emerging from the Ludlow Street scene around Todo Con Nada in 1998. His other theatrical work includes Retail Sluts, The Rise and Fall of the Farewell Drugs, “...Worry, Baby,” The Hobo Got Too High, I Wanna Be Adored, Shyness Is Nice, Gravity Always Wins, The Name of This Play is Talking Heads, Your Face Is A Mess, A Marshmallow World, Up For Anything and P.S. It's Poison. Shyness Is Nice was selected and anthologized as one of NY Theatre’s Best Plays of 2001, and its opening monologue appears in the Applause anthology One One One: Best Men’s Monologues of the 21st Century, published in October, 2008.
Spitz has spoken at Columbia University
(on playwrighting) and DePaul University
(on journalism), and appeared as a "talking head" on MTV
, VH1
, MSNBC
.
Spin (magazine)
Spin is a music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr.-History:In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college-oriented rock music and on the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard...
(where he was a Senior Writer) as well as The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, Maxim
Maxim (magazine)
Maxim is an international men's magazine based in the United Kingdom and known for its pictorials featuring popular actresses, singers, and female models, sometimes pictured dressed, often pictured scantily dressed but not fully nude....
, Blender
Blender (magazine)
Blender was an American music magazine that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more". It was also known for sometimes steamy pictorials of celebrities....
, Harp
HARP (magazine)
Harp was a print and online magazine that provided in-depth information on current music, mainly the adult album alternative genre, which encompasses a large variety of music...
, Nylon
Nylon (magazine)
Nylon is an American magazine that focuses on pop culture and fashion. Its coverage includes art, beauty, music, design, celebrities, technology and travel...
and the New York Post
New York Post
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...
. He is currently the music blogger for Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
and a regular contributor to the British music magazine Uncut
UNCUT (magazine)
Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London. It is available across the English-speaking world, and focuses on music, but also includes film and books sections...
.
Spitz is the author of the novels, How Soon Is Never
How Soon Is Never
How Soon Is Never is novel-cum-homage to The Smiths set in working-class Manchester, England, in the early 1980s. The book was written by Marc Spitz and originally released on September 23, 2003 by Three Rivers Press.-Synopsis:...
, and Too Much, Too Late
Too Much, Too Late
Too Much, Too Late is novel written by Marc Spitz that was originally released on February 28, 2006 by Three Rivers Press.-Synopsis:Reunited more than a decade after their brief flirtation with fame in the early 1990s, the middle-aged members of the Ohio-based Jane Ashers suddenly find themselves...
and the biographies We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk
We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk
We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk is an oral history of the Los Angeles punk scene written by Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen and originally released on November 13, 2001 by Three Rivers Press.-External links:* at Three Rivers Press...
(with Brendan Mullen
Brendan Mullen
Brendan Mullen was born in Paisley, Scotland and moved to Manchester, England when he was 8. He spent his early teen years writing for various British music magazines. In 1973, Mullen moved to the United States where he remained for the remainder of his life. Mullen had just started working toward...
), Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times and Music of Green Day
Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times and Music of Green Day
Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times and Music of Green Day is a biography written by Marc Spitz about American rock band Green Day...
, BOWIE: A Biography
Bowie: A Biography
BOWIE: A Biography is an expansive biography on the life and times of musician David Bowie, one of the twentieth century's greatest music and cultural icons...
and Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue
Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue
Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue is a biography and cultural examination of The Rolling Stones' frontman Mick Jagger's spectacular life and the cultural revolution he led. The book was written by Marc Spitz and originally released on September 8, 2011 by Gotham Books.-Synopsis:As the...
. He appears in the anthologies: The Encyclopedia of Ex-es, Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit and Rock N’ Roll Cage Match: Music’s Greatest Rivalries Decided. His books have been translated and published in French, German and Dutch.
Spitz has been an acclaimed "Downtown" playwright since emerging from the Ludlow Street scene around Todo Con Nada in 1998. His other theatrical work includes Retail Sluts, The Rise and Fall of the Farewell Drugs, “...Worry, Baby,” The Hobo Got Too High, I Wanna Be Adored, Shyness Is Nice, Gravity Always Wins, The Name of This Play is Talking Heads, Your Face Is A Mess, A Marshmallow World, Up For Anything and P.S. It's Poison. Shyness Is Nice was selected and anthologized as one of NY Theatre’s Best Plays of 2001, and its opening monologue appears in the Applause anthology One One One: Best Men’s Monologues of the 21st Century, published in October, 2008.
Spitz has spoken at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
(on playwrighting) and DePaul University
DePaul University
DePaul University is a private institution of higher education and research in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul...
(on journalism), and appeared as a "talking head" on MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
, VH1
VH1
VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...
, MSNBC
MSNBC
MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
.
Novels
- How Soon Is NeverHow Soon Is NeverHow Soon Is Never is novel-cum-homage to The Smiths set in working-class Manchester, England, in the early 1980s. The book was written by Marc Spitz and originally released on September 23, 2003 by Three Rivers Press.-Synopsis:...
(2003), A novel-cum-homage to The SmithsThe SmithsThe Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...
set on Long Island, New York, in the 1980s and 1990s. - Too Much, Too LateToo Much, Too LateToo Much, Too Late is novel written by Marc Spitz that was originally released on February 28, 2006 by Three Rivers Press.-Synopsis:Reunited more than a decade after their brief flirtation with fame in the early 1990s, the middle-aged members of the Ohio-based Jane Ashers suddenly find themselves...
(2006), A humorous rock ‘n’ roll memoir.
Non-Fiction
- We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA PunkWe Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA PunkWe Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk is an oral history of the Los Angeles punk scene written by Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen and originally released on November 13, 2001 by Three Rivers Press.-External links:* at Three Rivers Press...
(2001), An evocative oral history of the mid-seventies L.A. punk subculture written with Brendan MullenBrendan MullenBrendan Mullen was born in Paisley, Scotland and moved to Manchester, England when he was 8. He spent his early teen years writing for various British music magazines. In 1973, Mullen moved to the United States where he remained for the remainder of his life. Mullen had just started working toward...
. - Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times and Music of Green DayNobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times and Music of Green DayNobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times and Music of Green Day is a biography written by Marc Spitz about American rock band Green Day...
(2007), An informative biography of punk band Green DayGreen DayGreen Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1987. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool...
. - BOWIE: A BiographyBowie: A BiographyBOWIE: A Biography is an expansive biography on the life and times of musician David Bowie, one of the twentieth century's greatest music and cultural icons...
(2009), An expansive biography of music and cultural icon David BowieDavid BowieDavid Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
. - Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, RogueJagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, RogueJagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue is a biography and cultural examination of The Rolling Stones' frontman Mick Jagger's spectacular life and the cultural revolution he led. The book was written by Marc Spitz and originally released on September 8, 2011 by Gotham Books.-Synopsis:As the...
(2011), A biography of The Rolling Stones'The Rolling StonesThe Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
frontman Mick Jagger'sMick JaggerSir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....
spectacular life and the cultural revolution he led.
Plays
- Retail Sluts
- The Rise and Fall of the Farewell Drugs
- “...Worry, Baby”
- The Hobo Got Too High
- I Wanna Be Adored
- Shyness Is Nice
- Gravity Always Wins
- The Name of This Play is Talking Heads
- Your Face Is A Mess
- A Marshmallow World
- Up For Anything
- P.S. It's Poison
External links
- Marc Spitz on Facebook
- Marc Spitz on Twitter
- Marc Spitz archive at SpinSpin (magazine)Spin is a music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr.-History:In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college-oriented rock music and on the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard...
- Marc Spitz archive at Vanity FairVanity Fair (magazine)Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
- Marc Spitz at Random HouseRandom HouseRandom House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
- BOWIE: A Biography by Marc Spitz
- Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue by Marc Spitz