Marc Spitz

For over a decade, Marc Spitz has been one of the most recognizable voices in music journalism. Spitz’s writings on rock n’ roll and popular culture have appeared in Spin (where he was a Senior Writer) as well as The New York Times, Maxim, Blender, Harp, Vanity Fair, Nylon and the New York Post. He is a regular contributor to British music magazine Uncut.

Marc SpitzSpitz is the author of the novels, How Soon Is Never (Three Rivers Press/Random House 2003), and Too Much, Too Late (Crown/Random House 2006) and the biographies We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk (with Brendan Mullen) (Three Rivers Press/ Random House 2001), and Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times and Music of Green Day, Hyperion Books 2006. He appears in the anthologies: The Encyclopedia of Ex-es (Three Rivers Press, 2005), Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit (Three Rivers Press, 2008), and Rock N’ Roll Cage Match: Music’s Greatest Rivalries Decided (Three Rivers Press, 2008). His work been translated and published in French, German and Dutch.

BOWIE: A Biography will be published by Crown/Random House in the Fall of 2009.

Spitz has been an acclaimed “Downtown” plawright since emerging from the Ludlow Street scene around Todo Con Nada in 1998. His other theatrical work includes Retail Sluts, The Rise and Fall of the Farewell Drugs, “...Worry, Baby,” The Hobo Got Too High, I Wanna Be Adored, Shyness Is Nice, Gravity Always Wins, The Name of This Play is Talking Heads, Your Face Is A Mess, and the holiday short A Marshmallow World. His latest play, Up For Anything opens in October at the Kraine Theater on East 4th Street in Manhattan. Shyness Is Nice was selected and anthologized as one of NY Theatre’s Best Plays of 2001, and its opening monologue appears in the Applause anthology One One One: Best Men’s Monologues of the 21st Century, published in October, 2008.

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