David Yaffe

David Yaffe is the author of Fascinating Rhythm (Princeton, 2006), Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown (Yale, 2011), and Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell (FSG, 2017, winner of the the Association For Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research (ARSC), the ASCAP/Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award, and on the Washington Post Best Books of the Year List for 2017. He was the winner of the Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism, 2012. His writings have appeared in many publications, including The New York Review of Books, New York Magazine, The Nation, Slate, Bookforum, Tablet, The Village Voice, The New York Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Air Mail, The Paris Review, Harper's Magazine, The Oxford American, and other publications. Since 2005, he has taught at Syracuse University, where he is a Professor of Humanities. He lives in Brooklyn, and you can follow his Substack: davidyaffe.substack.com