Lucky for readers, Christgau engages in self-examination with equal vigor and often with similarly surprising results. As this new memoir demonstrates, his critical faculties engaged early - an essay he wrote for English class in the 1950s was titled “Why ‘Casey at the Bat’ Is a Better Poem Than ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ ” - and half a century later he’s still willing to argue the point. Years after he mockingly dubbed himself “the Dean of American Rock Critics” (it was “the most effective self-promotion of my life,” he writes) the title has followed Robert Christgau through a career that has spanned five decades of popular music, most notably as the chief music critic for the Village Voice.
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