Marc Spitz

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Marc Spitz
Born(1969-10-02)October 2, 1969
Far Rockway, Queens, New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedFebruary 4, 2017(2017-02-04) (aged 47)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation
  • Author
  • music journalist
  • playwright
Alma materBennington College
GenreMusic, pop culture

Marc Spitz (October 2, 1969 – February 4, 2017) was an American music journalist, writer and playwright. Spitz's writings on rock and roll and popular culture appeared in Spin (where he was a Senior Writer) as well as The New York Times, Maxim, Blender, Harp, Nylon and the New York Post. He was a contributing music writer for Vanity Fair.

Biography

Born in Far Rockaway, Queens, Spitz was the author of the novels

We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk (with Brendan Mullen), Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times and Music of Green Day, Bowie: A Biography, and Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue
. He appears in the anthologies The Encyclopedia of Ex-es, Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit, and Rock N’ Roll Cage Match: Music’s Greatest Rivalries Decided. His books have been translated and published in French, Danish, German, and Dutch.

Spitz was a "Downtown" playwright, emerging from the

Ludlow Street
scene around Todo Con Nada in 1998. His other theatrical work includes Retail Sluts, The Rise and Fall of the Farewell Drugs, ...Worry, Baby, The Hobo Got Too High, I Wanna Be Adored, Shyness Is Nice, Gravity Always Wins, The Name of This Play is Talking Heads, Your Face Is A Mess, A Marshmallow World, Up For Anything, and P.S. It's Poison. Shyness Is Nice was selected and anthologized as one of NY Theatre's Best Plays of 2001, and its opening monologue appears in the Applause anthology One on One: Best Men’s Monologues of the 21st Century, published in October, 2008.

Spitz spoke at Columbia University (on playwrighting) and DePaul University (on journalism), and appeared as a "talking head" on MTV, VH1, MSNBC.

Spitz died in New York City, at the age of 47.[1][2][3]

Books

Novels

  • How Soon Is Never?.
    ISBN 978-0609810408
    .
  • Too Much, Too Late.
    ISBN 978-1400082933
    .

Nonfiction

Plays

  • Retail Sluts
  • The Rise and Fall of the Farewell Drugs
  • "…Worry, Baby"
  • The Hobo Got Too High
  • I Wanna Be Adored
  • Shyness Is Nice
  • Gravity Always Wins
  • The Name of This Play is Talking Heads
  • Your Face Is A Mess
  • A Marshmallow World
  • Up For Anything
  • P.S. It's Poison
  • Revenge and Guilt

References

  1. ISSN 0035-791X
    .
  2. ISSN 0006-2510
    .
  3. ISSN 0886-3032
    .
  4. ^ Berman, Judy (November 20, 2009). "Stardust Memories: Biographer Marc Spitz on David Bowie's Pop Culture Legacy". Flavorwire.
  5. ^ Indar, Josh (January 28, 2010). "Bowie: A Biography by Marc Spitz". PopMatters.

External links

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