{"product_id":"earlier","title":"Earlier","description":"\u003cp\u003eShuttling between 1967 and 2020, \u003cem\u003eEarlier\u003c\/em\u003e is a glorious sequence of moments, a record of the experiences that set the shape of a life. Sasha Frere-Jones’s prose floats between clinically precise fragments and emotional impressions of revelations, pleasures, and accidents. It’s a book about how lives happen and sensibilities form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs fellow music critic Alex Ross observes, “It is weird to write a book about yourself, as this book is well aware. Gazing in the mirror is not mass entertainment. Sasha Frere-Jones, a writer of nonchalant, rope-a-dope power, drops the illusion of self-knowledge and instead offers up a kaleidoscope of memory shards, faithful to the chaos of inner and outer worlds. Earlier is funny, cool, raw, wise, and secretly sublime.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEarlier \u003c\/em\u003eis fundamentally a musical book, rooted in the interaction of rhythm, line, and voice. The main characters are 1 place and 3 decades: New York City, as seen in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[publishers’ note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358206075220,"sku":"A8B-36075","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/earliey.jpg?v=1790814470","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/earlier","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}