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Alan Light (born August 4, 1966) is an American journalist who has been a rock critic for Rolling Stone and the editor-in-chief for Vibe, Spin, and Tracks. Early life Light grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended Cincinnati Country Day School. His mother was a dance reviewer for the local newspaper. His father, Dr. Irwin Light, was a neotologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. He graduated from Yale University in 1988, majoring in American Studies, and wrote his senior thesis on Licensed to Ill by the Beastie Boys. Career Light had been an intern at Rolling Stone during their 20th anniversary year while still a student. He later joined the staff as a fact checker in 1989, becoming a senior writer in 1990. In 1993, he became the founding music editor of Vibe magazine, becoming editor-in-chief in 1994. In 1999 he became editor-in-chief for Spin magazine. He left Spin in March 2002 and founded the music magazine Tracks in 2003. He then worked as music reviewer on radio station WFUV, and served as music correspondent on NPR show Weekend America. He writes regularly for The New York Times. Light has worked as consultant for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He was a judge for the 4th Annual Independent Music Awards in 2005, and subsequently for the 11th, 12th and 13th Annual Independent Music Awards. Starting in October 2016 Light is one of the mainstay hosts of the newly created Volume music talk channel on Sirius XM on the afternoon show Debatable. Light has also been involved in assisting homeless people with the Housing Works AIDS charity. After publication of his 2012 book The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of 'Hallelujah, Light served as consulting producer for the 2022 film Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song. Selected bibliography Tupac Amaru Shakur: 1971–1996 (with Quincy Jones), 1998 The Vibe History of Hip Hop, 1999 The Skills to Pay the Bills: The Story of the Beastie Boys, 2006 My Cross To Bear (by Gregg Allman, with Alan Light), 2012 The Holy or the Broken – Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of 'Hallelujah', 2012 Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain, 2014 References External links Alan Light – Official Publisher Page – Simon & Schuster. Discover the Alan Light popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Alan Light books.
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All Due Respect . . . The Sopranos Changes Everything
Alan Sepinwall"The Sopranos is the one [show] that made the world realize something special was happening on television. It rewrote the rules and made TV a better, happier place for thinking vie...
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Bonfire Night
Anna Bliss“A most tender work of art...Bonfire Night is a treasure of a novel, beautifully written with the unflinching style and subtle psychological insights of such masters as Ian McEwan ...
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A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams
Jeff PearceThe poor boy who made his fortune . . . not just once but twice.Little Jeff Pearce grew up in a postwar Liverpool slum. His father lived the life of an affluent gentleman whilst hi...
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The Love Knot
Charlotte BinghamThree friends make their mark on the world in this captivating and moving saga. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, for fans of Louise Doug...
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Visions of Tomorrow
Tom Easton & Judith K. DialA fascinating collection of fictionturnedreality tales. Long before movies like Minority Report and The Matrix, the world’s writers have been recording the future as it might exist...
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In the Absence of Men
Philippe Besson & Frank Wynne'An astonishing love story, beautifully told' Time Out'I am sixteen. I am as old as the century'It is 1916. Vincent is sixteen, on the brink of manhood. ...
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Over Hill and Dale
Gervase PhinnOver Hill and Dale is the second volume in Gervase Phinn's bestselling Dales series.'Miss, who's that funny man at the back of the classroom?So begins schoolinspector Gervase Phinn...
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Meanwhile Street
Miranda GloverIt's early morning and Meanwhile Street thinks it's waking to a regular Wednesday in May. Soon a disconcerting sound alerts Maggie and Gordon that something's not right. Throughout...
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Alan Turing
David E. NewtonAlan Turing ranks as one of the most brilliant of twentiethcentury mathematicians. He is perhaps best known as one of the founding fathers of two fields of mathematics with enormo...
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Waiting for the Storks
Katrina NannestadThe powerful new novel from master storyteller Katrina Nannestad.I don't want to remember the truck, or the night I was taken, or the family I left behind. I am not a sad Polish gi...
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The Magic Hour
Charlotte BinghamExciting and dramatic but tender and heartfelt; this is a novel that you will return to again and again. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham...
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Richard II
William Shakespeare & Stanley Wells'Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king'Richard, a vain, despotic ruler, listens only to his flatterers. When his cousin Bolingbroke, p...
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Shakespeare in the Light
Paul Menzer & Amy R. CohenShakespeare in the Light convenes an accomplished group of scholars, actors, and teachers to celebrate the legacy of American Shakespeare Center’s founder, Ralph Alan Cohen. Each e...
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Hungry Beat
Douglas MacIntyre & Grant McPhee'Hungry Beat is the story of an alltoobrief era where the shortcircuiting of that industry seemed viable. But hell, the times were luminous as was the music these artists made. The...
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The Guns at Last Light
Rick Atkinson#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War IIIt is the twentieth cen...
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The White Marriage
Charlotte BinghamFans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jeffries will love this captivating novel about the destruction of innocence from million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingha...
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Stardust
Charlotte BinghamFans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jeffries will love this wonderfully evocative and enthralling romantic saga by the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingh...
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Goodnight Sweetheart
Charlotte BinghamExciting and dramatic but tender and heartfelt; this is a novel that you will return to again and again. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham...
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Chess
Stefan Zweig'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board,...
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The Enchanted
Charlotte BinghamExciting and dramatic but tender and heartfelt; this is a novel that you will return to again and again. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham...
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The Saga of Grettir the Strong
Örnólfur ThorssonComposed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great Icelandic sagas. It relates the tale of Grettir, an elev...
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Three Plays
John WebsterThe plays of Jacobean dramatist John Webster are masterpieces of early seventeenthcentury English theatre. ‘The White Devil’ depicts a dark, sinister world of duplicity, intrigue a...
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In Their Lives
Andrew BlaunerThe perfect gift for any Beatles fan, In Their Lives is an anthology of essays from a chorus of twentynine luminaries singing the praises of their favorite Beatles songs. The Beatl...
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The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa & Richard ZenithWith its astounding hardcover reviews Richard Zenith's new complete translation of THE BOOK OF DISQUIET has now taken on a similar iconic status to ULYSSES, THE TRIAL or IN SEARCH ...
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The Concubine of Shanghai
Hong YingChina, 1907. Sixteenyearold orphan Cassia is sold by her aunt to a brothel. There, she works as a lowly maid for Madame Emerald until a powerful and dangerous client plucks her fro...
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Chance
Joseph Conrad'It is a mighty force that of mere chance, absolutely irresistible yet manifesting itself often in delicate forms such for instance as the charm, true or illusory, of a human being...
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Colour Bar
Susan WilliamsSir Seretse Khama, the first President of Botswana and heir apparent to the kingship of the Bangwato people, brought independence and great prosperity to his nation after colonial ...
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The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English
Paula BurnettOver the last few decades Caribbean writers performance poets, newspaper poets, singersongwriters have created a genuinely popular art form, a poetry heard by audiences all over ...
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Jacques the Fatalist
Denis Diderot & Michael HenryDenis Diderot (17131784) was among the greatest writers of the Enlightenment, and in Jacques the Fatalist he brilliantly challenged the artificialities of conventional French ficti...
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In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead
James Lee BurkeThe sixth in the New York Times bestselling Dave Robicheaux series delivers a heartpounding bayou manhuntand features “one of the coolest, earthiest heroes in thrillerdom” (Enterta...
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Fire in the Sky
Gordon L. DillowThis “accessible and always entertaining” (Booklist) combination of history, pop science, and indepth reporting offers a fascinating account of the asteroids that hit Earth long ag...
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All Together Now
Alan DoyleNational BestsellerOne of Newfoundland's funniest and most beloved storytellers offers his cure for the Covid blues. Is there a more sociable province than Newfoundland and Labrado...
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The Light of Asia
Christopher HardingThis rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of tangled, dynamic ...
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Light This Candle
Neal ThompsonThe definitive biography of Alan Shepard, America’s first man in space, with a new Foreword by Chris Kraft “One of the finest books ever written about the space program.”Homer...
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A Dancer in Wartime
Gillian LynneLondon during the Blitz was a time of hardship, heroism and hope.For Gillian Lynne – a budding ballerina – it was also a time of great change as she was evacuated from wartorn Lond...