📗 Libro en inglés COSMIC SCHOLAR

Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times Dwight Garner The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus John Szwed allows different sides of Smith s personality to catch blades of sun He brings the right mixture of reverence and comic incredulity to his task Dwight Garner The New York Times Grammy Award winning music scholar and celebrated biographer John Szwed presents the first biography of Harry Smith the brilliant eccentric who transformed twentieth century art and culture He was an anthropologist filmmaker painter folklorist mystic and walking encyclopedia He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult swapped drugs with Timothy Leary had a front row seat to a young Thelonious Monk lived with and tortured Allen Ginsberg was admired by Susan Sontag and was one of the first artists funded by Guggenheim Foundation He was always broke generally intoxicated compulsively irascible and unimpeachably authentic Harry Smith was in the words of Robert Frank the only person I met in my life that transcended everything In Cosmic Scholar the Grammy Award winning music scholar and celebrated biographer John Szwed patches together for the first time the life of one of the twenti