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Tim’s books have earned rave reviews from the New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, and his Lennon biography was named a book of the year by Kirkus Reviews. His next project chronicles the aesthetics of technology and pop's new exploding multiverse.
He also reviews pop and classical music for NPR’s Here and Now and On Point, and has written for the New York Times, truthdig, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, Slate, Salon, Creem, and many other publications.
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