Ben Greenman is a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor who has written both fiction and nonfiction. His novels and short-story collections include The Slippage and Superbad, he was Questlove's collaborator on Mo Meta Blues and Something to Food About, and he has written memoirs with George Clinton and Brian Wilson. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, McSweeney's, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere."
"When it comes to funk and words, lyrics and language, there
couldn't be a better pairing than Ben Greenman and Prince. From my
experience with both of them, this is the perfect match, like ham
hocks and cornflakes."
--George Clinton
?"?Prince's genius is on full display here as Greenman remarks
on his prolific music virtuosity, putting out an album once a year,
and his obsessive dedication to saving every little scrap of his
writing and recording to use again. Greenman's brilliant book
celebrates a musician who crammed substance into every corner of
his music.?"?
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Praise for Ben Greenman "Greenman understands the power of music
all too well." --Newsday "Incapable of writing anything dry
or familiar or expected. He is one of the most versatile,
consistently surprising writers at work today." --Dave Eggers
"Brilliant and wry" --Karen Russell"Greenman rarely plays a wrong
chord." --New York Times"He writes sentences so sharp they
hurt." --Jess Walter "What a fine and unique writer Ben Greenman
is. I love his sentences, his precision. I feel like he's absorbed
and digested so much great literature, distilling it all to create
his own fantastic universe of stories and ideas." -Jonathan
Ames "Seriously brilliant and lyrical" --Simon Van Booy "Ben
Greenman's mind contains, among other things, a literary critic, a
cultural commentator, a cowboy, a satirist, a scientist, a
surrealist, a nut, a genius, a child prodigy, and a poet." -Susan
Minot "Like Bruno Schulz, George Saunders, Donald Barthelme, and no
one else I can think of, Greenman has the power to be whimsical
without resorting to whimsy." --Darin Strauss "Light-stepping and
hard-hitting Greenman gets it right" -- Walter Mosley
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