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from newcity chicago's list of 50 local literary lights...also includes studs terkel, roger ebert and jeff tweedy

34. Jim DeRogatis
The Sun-Times music scribe or, DeRo, as he's commonly known in the music world, had his greatest literary hit so far with "Let it Blurt," his biography of rock critic extraordinaire Lester Bangs. He's also published his musings on the alternative music scene and psychedelic rock--this month marks the release of the most recent collection he's edited, "Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Consider the Classics," which includes a takedown of Bob Marley by Newcity's Dave Chamberlain. **Word has it DeRo's also shopping around a memoir of his life in music.**

Can we help him by suggesting a title?

― ryan adams, Friday, 4 June 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Did anyone read Jonathan Schwartz's latest memoir? He used to pleasure men as a kid for records!!!!! My kind of obsessive.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"It Ain't Over Till the Fat Boy Posts His Copy"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

So You've Actually Gotten to Eat The King of Rock Criticism!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I SWEAR that's not meant as a fat joke. More of misguided-ancestor-worship thing.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

is he fat or something? i don't get it.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

He used to be pretty big, but has since slimmed down some.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"He used to pleasure men as a kid for records!!!!!"
Here kid, take this, you know, for carfare...
Thanks for the twenty bucks, mister, but, gee, could I have that mint copy of Come Fly With Me instead?

― John Rechy, Friday, 4 June 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

ILMers are so jealous of DeRo's sweet gig. Or anyone with a sweet gig.

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 4 June 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Y'all Just Some Jelous Motha Fuckaz: A Tale of the Sweetest Gig in Rockcrit

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 4 June 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Jann Wenner Is A Big Fat Idiot
I'll Take Manhattan (Not)
Lipitor Nation
Hootie n' Me: The Star-Crossed Odyssey of a Southern Blowfish and a Windy City Blowhard
Big Media Lies and How Lying Liars Who Tell Them Have Even Sweeter Gigs Than Me

― bryan adams, Friday, 4 June 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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