He teaches Cultural and Music Criticism, and serves as Graduate Program Director for the Master's Degree. Since 2009, he has taught digital journalism at Emerson College in Boston. He writes book reviews for the LA Review of Books, and won the LA Press Club's award for Best Book Critic for his essays in 2016. His reviews appear in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Slate and Salon. (Sept.About the Book: LENNON: MAN, MYTH, MUSIC is a musical biography, the history of rock'n'roll through John Lennon's ears.Ībout the Beverage: Riley pairs this book with George Howell Tarrazu coffee from Costa Rica because its aroma and lingering taste sustains thoughtful, reflective reading, listening, and thinking.Ībout the Author: NPR critic, Emerson College Professor of Journalism and Author Tim Riley reviews music for NPR’s HERE AND NOW and ON POINT. The result is a book that at once enriches our appreciation of Lennon's larger-than-life genius and his mortality.
With an impressive array of sources, he soberly explores Lennon's many contradictions, ably separating myth from reality. By now, the broad strokes of Lennon's life have been largely sketched, and Riley doesn't veer far from that script%E2%80%94a volatile early childhood the groundbreaking success of the Beatles the crumbling of the group as personal ties frayed, business soured, and artistic paths diverged and Lennon's erratic, activist post-Beatle life with Yoko Ono in America before he settled down to be the father he never had to son Sean. Is there room for another big biography of John Lennon, just a few years from Philip Norman's doorstopper, and four years from Bob Spitz's epic history of the Beatles? Journalist and NPR media critic Tim Riley (the author of previous books on the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Madonna) proves there is with this insightful, page-turning examination of Lennon's roots, his Beatle fame, his art, his manic personality and relationship with Yoko Ono, and the peace he finally seemed to find, only to have his life cut tragically short by a crazed gunman.
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