June 19th, 2026
Andy Beta is an award-winning arts and music writer. His newest book,
Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane, was published in March by Da Capo. His writing on rock, jazz, experimental, and electronic music has appeared in
The New York Times,
The Wall Street Journal,
Pitchfork,
Rolling Stone,
The Washington Post,
Los Angeles Times,
Texas Monthly, NPR,
We Jazz magazine, and many more.…
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September 12th, 2025
Baldwin: A Love Story, published by
Farrar, Straus and Giroux in August 2025, is author Boggs’s examination of writer James Baldwin — the first major biography of this influential, controversial, and compelling author in three decades. Boggs also rediscovered and co-edited the out-of-print children’s book,
Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood, Baldwin’s collaboration with French artist Yoran Cazac. Boggs is the recipient of several writing grants, residencies (Yaddo and MacDowell), and fellowships, including…
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