Night Beat: A Shadow History of Rock & Roll : Collected Writings - Rilegato

Praise for Night Beat:

"There is such an openness and generosity of spirit in Mikal Gilmore's sensibility that the only question is whether his writing can live up to it.  It seems to do so effortlessly."
--Greil Marcus, author of Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes

"More than a collection of essays, this book is a literary box-set from one of our finest voices.  Music means more because Mikal Gilmore has written about it."
--Cameron Crowe

"Mikal Gilmore understands the soul of rock & roll artists.  He's as good as it gets."
--Danny Goldberg, President and CEO, Mercury Records

"Quite simply, Night Beat contains some of the most revelatory writing about popular music that's ever been done."
--Michael Azerrad, author of Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana

Praise for Shot in the Heart:

"The making of art is supposed to be cathartic, but often the catharsis does more for the audience than for the creator.  Shot in the Heart is a gesture of sustained courage that just happens to be a page turner."  
--Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker

"Shot in the Heart is a most extraordinary and original book, and both the story and the storyteller utterly transcend the genre into a league of their own."  
--Bob Shacochis, author of Easy in the Islands

Mikal Gilmore has covered and criticized rock & roll, its culture, and related issues for many national publications.  He was music editor for the L.A. Weekly and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and for twenty years has worked on the staff of Rolling Stone, where he has profiled many national figures.  His first book, Shot in the Heart, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.  He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.