Gary, long-time columnist for the Village Voice and unarguably the world's preeminent jazz critic, welcomes you to his site. Here you'll learn more about the man who's won an unparalleled six ASCAP–Deems Taylor Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Peabody Award in Broadcasting, as well as a lifetime achievement award from the Jazz Journalists Association.

You'll be able to read some of his published essays on music, film, and American popular culture, as well as hear and see interviews he's given about topics as diverse as Ingmar Bergman, Bing Crosby and Spike Jones.

Gary's upcoming public appearances, new publications, and news on “works in progress” can also be found here. Welcome!

Access and Roadblocks: Gary Giddins in Conversation with Charles J. Shields and Patricia Bosworth

Gary Giddins will discuss the problems and pleasures of writing about contemporary figures with the authors of two new biographies – Charles J. Shields, whose And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life is forthcoming in November, and Patricia Bosworth, whose Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman appeared in September. Shields previously wrote a life of Harper Lee, Mockingbird. Bosworth has written definitive lives of Montgomery Clift and Diane Arbus, a "brief life" of Marlon Brando and the classic memoir of her father, Anything Your Little Heart Desires.

Free and open to the public. Reservations are required.

Wed., Dec. 7, 2011
6:30 PM
The Skylight Room (9100)
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016

For more information, please email biography@gc.cuny.edu.