About the Book: LENNON: MAN, MYTH, MUSIC is a musical biography, the history of rock'n'roll through John Lennon's ears.

About the Beverage: Riley pairs this book with George Howell Tarrazu coffee from Costa Rica because its aroma and lingering taste sustains thoughtful, reflective reading, listening, and thinking.

About the Author: NPR critic, Emerson College Professor of Journalism and Author Tim Riley reviews music for NPR’s HERE AND NOW and ON POINT. His reviews appear in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Slate and Salon. He writes book reviews for the LA Review of Books, and won the LA Press Club's award for Best Book Critic for his truthdig.com essays in 2016.
Since 2009, he has taught digital journalism at Emerson College in Boston. He teaches Cultural and Music Criticism, and serves as Graduate Program Director for the Master's Degree.
His fifth book, a biography of John Ono Lennon (Hyperion, 2011), won praise from Rolling Stone, and NPR, New York Times ("...a critical tour-de-force"). Riley gave a keynote address at Monmouth College's WHITE ALBUM symposium on the 50th anniversary of that album. As a popular presenter, he's given hundreds of lively multi-media lectures on "Censorship in the Arts," and "Rock History." His current projects include the riley rock report audio newsletter, and a major new Beatles multimedia textbook, WHAT GOES ON: THE BEATLES, THEIR MUSIC, AND THEIR TIME (with Walter Everett, Oxford University Press, 2019).
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