This essay looks at whether book learning or trade learning is better for a critic. Actually, it turns out that neither of the two is what makes a critic great. When I was an undergraduate at uni, from 1999 until 2002,…
REBLOGGED: The Graduate School of Rock: Scholars sculpting rock into art
Written by Tom Valcanis. Here’s his second essay in our collaborative essay project. On November 9, 1967, Jann Wenner’s first editorial appeared in the inaugural edition of Rolling Stone magazine. It read: “We have begun a new publication…sort of a…