Anthony Heilbut
Anthony Heilbut is the author of THE GOSPEL SOUND: GOOD NEWS AND BAD TIMES (fourth edition, 1997; "one of the 100 greatest books of the twentieth century," Counter-Punch); EXILED IN PARADISE: GERMAN REFUGEE ARTISTS AND INTELLECTUALS IN AMERICA FROM THE 1930's TO THE PRESENT (1983, 1997; title and subject of conferences held in Los Angeles in 2003 and New York in 2004); THOMAS MANN: EROS AND LITERATURE (1996; winner of the Randy Shilts Prize for Gay Non-Fiction, 1997); a forthcoming collection of essays (2006); and numerous contributions to anthologies of literary and musical criticism. Contributor to THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW; THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW; THE NATION; THE NEW YORKER; THE VILLAGE VOICE, etc.
Heilbut's long-awaited essay collection THE FAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH was published by Knopf in June 2012.
Barney Hoskyns' 1996 interview with Anthony Heilbut
6 articles
List of articles in the library
Book Review by Anthony Heilbut, The New York Times, 2 August 1992
THE RISE OF GOSPEL BLUES ...
Marion Williams: The Genius of Marion Williams: My Soul Looks Back
Sleeve notes by Anthony Heilbut, Spirit Feel/Shanachie, 1994
IN RETROSPECT, Marion Williams' last year assumes an almost mythic shape. She finally received the worldly honours and material goods long denied her: the rush ...
Josh White: The Original Soul Man: Josh White
Book Review by Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book Review, 29 December 2002
WHEN ELIJAH WALD first mentioned Josh White to his parents, their memories clashed. His father recalled an earthy laborer, sweating soulfully; his mother, a sleek ...
Robert Johnson: Elijah Wald: Escaping the Delta - Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
Book Review by Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book Review, January 2004
WHOSE BLUES is it anyway? On his first trip to the Mississippi Delta, Elijah Wald found himself performing a Robert Johnson song at the Mt. ...
Sleeve notes by Anthony Heilbut, Shanachie Records, 2010
"You know, friends, they got this new music ... this rocking and roll. And I'd just like to say that it gets its beat... its ...
Book Excerpt by Anthony Heilbut, 'The Fan Who Knew Too Much' (Knopf), June 2012
AMONG THE SEVERAL MYTHS Aretha's father Reverend C. L. Franklin incarnated was a familiar type, Reverend Eatemup, the man with pastoral appetites in food and ...
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