Bill welcomes journalist, music critic, and debut fiction author David Hajdu to the show. David is the music critic for The Nation and a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Before joining The Nation in January 2015, he served for more than ten years as the music critic for The New Republic. His most recent book, Adrianne Geffel, is "fictional work of nonfiction," a biography of a nonexistent songwriter. He is currently working on a nonfiction book about artificial creativity, in addition to collaborating with the artist John Carey on a book of graphic nonfiction for Columbia University Press. David also published four books of nonfiction and one collection of essays: Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn (1996), Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña (2001), The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America (2008), Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture (2009), and Love for Sale: Pop Music in America (fall 2016). Don't miss it!