With Pauline Kael, Christgau is arguably one of the two most important American mass-culture critics of the second half of the 20th century yet he's devoted the majority of his working life to fashioning 100-word blurbs with letter grades. He's a public intellectual who unwittingly invented the reviews section of Entertainment Weekly.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Somewhere in New York a village is missing its rock critic
The Village Voice has fired Robert Christgau. Slate has the goods and high praise.
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