Going Into The City (hardcover edition)

A memoir by one of the great essayists and music journalists, the Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau. Going Into The City is a look back at the upbringing that grounded him, the history that transformed him, and the music, books, and films that showed him the way. Like Alfred Kazin's A Walker in the City, E.B. White's Here is New York, and Patti Smith's Just Kids, it is a loving portrait of a lost New York. It's a homage to the city of Christgau's youth from Queens to the Lower East Side - a city that exists mostly in memory today. And it's also a love story about the Greenwich Village girl who roamed this realm of possibility with him.