The MiraculousSeptember 2023Music
42. Sometime in the 1980s, London
Word count: 55
Paragraphs: 3
Two British music journalists meet for lunch in a Holland Park bistro for the express purpose of continuing an argument they had begun in print about the music of a hugely successful American soul singer known for his deep and melodious voice.
(Ian MacDonald, Richard Williams, Barry White)
Raphael Rubinstein is the New York-based author of The Miraculous (Paper Monument, 2014) and A Geniza (Granary Books, 2015). Excerpts from his recently completed book Libraries of Sand about the Jewish-Egyptian writer Edmond Jabès have appeared in Bomb, The Fortnightly Review and 3:AM Magazine. In January 2023, Bloomsbury Academic will publish a collection of his writing titled Negative Work: The Turn to Provisionality in Contemporary Art. Since 2008 he has been Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Houston School of Art.