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the 60s, Paul Nelson pioneered rock & roll criticism with a rst-person style of writingat would later be popularized by the likes of Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer as New

urnalism. As co-founding editor ofThe Little Sandy Reviewand managing editor ofng Out!, hed already established himself, to use his friend Bob Dylans words, as alk-music scholar; but when Dylan went electric in 1965, Nelson went with him.

uring a ve-year detour at Mercury Records in the early 1970s, Nelson signed theew York Dolls to their rst recording contract, then settled back down to writingiticism at Rolling Stone. Famously championing the early careers of artists like Bruce

pringsteen, Jackson Browne, Rod Stewart, Neil Young, and Warren Zevon, Sex Pistols,nd The Ramones, Nelson not only wrote about them but often befriended them.

ut in 1982, he walked away from it all. By the time he died in his New York City apart-ent in 2006 at the age of 70, almost everything hed written had been relegated toack issues of old music magazines.

evin Avery spent four years researching and writing Everything Is an Afterthought:e Life and Writing of Paul Nelson. This unique anthology-biography compiles Nel-

ons best works while also providing a vivid account of Nelsons life.

merican journalist, biographer, and poet Nick Tosches wrote the foreword to this land-ark work of cultural revival, which stands as a tribute to and collection of one of thensung critical champions of popular music.

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Everything Is an Afterthought:The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson

By: Kevin Avery Foreword By: Nick Tosches$29.99 Hardcover Black & White584 PagesRelease: November 2011ISBN: 978-1606994757

A pioneering music critic gets his due.

About Kevin Avery

This is a landmark work of cultural rea tribute to and collection by one of unsung critical champions of populaKEVIN AVERY has published over 30ticles and short stories. This is his rstHis second book, Conversations with1979-1983: Paul Nelsons Lost Interv

with Clint Eastwood, will be publishewinter by Continuum Books. He lives Brooklyn, NY.

Praise For Paul Nelson

There was no moment of falsity, ther

no moment of dishonesty in [Paul Nelife or his writing. He may have beening for refuge all the time from whatdeep demons he had, but he never con as being anyone or anything othewhat he was. He was remarkable. COCKS

I admire Paul Nelson more than anyHes always been the one whos besderstood what Ive been trying to acplish. ROD STEWART

I was always very grateful that [PauNelson] wrote what he wrote. I donto give it a name or diminish it by enlating it in some sort of description othat was, but it made me feel that I wbeing received, that I was being heapeople who really got it. JACKSOBROWNE