Will Hermes is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, a longtime contributor to NPR's All Things Considered and The New York Times, and the author of Love Goes to Buildings on Fire and Lou Reed- The King of New York. He also writes for Pitchfork and other publications, and was co-editor of SPIN- 20 Years of Alternative Music.
Meticulous yet vivid . . . Hermes expertly conjures the difference
scenes Reed inhabited, placing him amid a rich cast of
collaborators, friends and lovers
*Guardian*
A sympathetic portrait of a vastly talented but difficult man
*Mojo*
No matter how well you know the man and his music, there’s so much
more to him that’s never been revealed until now. This book has the
menace and allure of Reed’s finest work
*Rolling Stone*
Plenty has been written about Reed, but only Hermes, to my mind,
has gotten Reed’s peculiar balance, of person and poseur, exactly
right . . . This biography is as beautifully researched as it is
written
*The Washington Post*
Fans will likely devour many of these stories and want to live
inside of them
*The Atlantic*
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