John Niven

Kill Your Friends, the popular satire that drew comparisons to American Psycho with its story about an A&R agent at a record company during the boom of Britpop in the late 90s, will receive a film treatment:Rafe Spall (Prometheus, Life of Pi) has signed to star in the Owen Harris directed adaptation of John Niven’s cult music industry darkly comic satirical novel Kill Your Friends, from the author’s own script…

Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968-2010 was recently released, just in time for the holidays…”The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan’s show at the University of Minnesota–his very first appearance at his alma mater–on election night 2008…