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American arts and entertainment critic
Ken Tucker
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Born
Kenneth Tucker
Nationality American Education B.A., English, New York University Occupation(s ) arts critic, magazine editor and nonfiction book author Years active since 1974[1] Website www.kentucker.net
Kenneth Tucker is an American arts, music and television critic, magazine editor, and nonfiction book author.
Early life and education [ edit ]
Tucker was born in Manhattan , New York City , New York , and raised in Stamford , Connecticut . He earned a bachelor's degree in English from New York University .
While attending NYU, he began writing freelance reviews for The Village Voice SoHo Weekly News Rolling Stone [2] Los Angeles Herald-Examiner The Philadelphia Inquirer
In 1990, he joined Entertainment Weekly a Time Inc. publication) as a founding staffer. He was the magazine's television critic,[3] [4] New York Magazine
Since 1982, Tucker has been a rock and pop music critic for the National Public Radio (NPR) talk show Fresh Air with Terry Gross [2] [5]
Tucker has appeared many times on television, including multiple appearances on The Today Show Good Morning America The Charlie Rose Show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson [6] The Gospel According to Al Green .[6] Cartoon College
Reception [ edit ]
Tucker's reviews have provoked some notable responses from his subjects. In August 1980, Billy Joel , enraged by a negative review of his music Tucker had written in the L.A. Herald Examiner , tore up the review on stage during one of his concerts.[7]
Tucker's negative reviews of Seth MacFarlane ’s animated series Family Guy Stewie Griffin breaks the neck of an Entertainment Weekly writer widely assumed to be Tucker.[8]
For his critical writings, Tucker was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism in 1984,[9] [10] National Magazine Award in 1995[11] Deems Taylor Award by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).[12] [13]
Writings [ edit ]
Articles and essays [ edit ]
Tucker has written frequently about poetry and comic books , most notably for The New York Times Book Review [14] [15] The Best American Poetry blog.[16] New York Times [17] Art Spiegelman ’s then-work-in-progress Maus Maus by Pantheon Books .[18]
He has contributed essays to the following anthologies:
Miller, Jim, ed. The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll , 1st Ed., New York: Rolling Stone Press, 1976. ISBN 0394403274
Country: The Music and the Musicians , New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. ISBN 0896598683
Cooking and Stealing: The TIN HOUSE Non-Fiction Reader , New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2004. ISBN 1582344868
Scarface Nation – The Ultimate Gangster Movie and How It Changed America ISBN 978-0-312-33059-0
Tucker, Ken; Stokes, Geoffrey; Ward, Ed. Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll , New York: Summit, 1986. ISBN 0671544381
Kissing Bill O'Reilly, Roasting Miss Piggy – 100 Things To Love and Hate About TV , New York City, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-312-33057-6
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ a b Ken Tucker Archived 2011-10-17 at the Wayback Machine at Rock Critic Archives
^ Tucker, Ken (17 May 1991). "Our Sons" . Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 23 August 2018 .
^ Moses, Lucia (13 February 2013). "Ken Tucker Leaves Entertainment Weekly" . AdWeek . Retrieved 18 December 2013 .
^ Ken Tucker at NPR
^ a b Ken Tucker at IMDb
^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Billy Joel Biography at Rolling Stone (citing All Music Guide )
^ Graham, Mark (4 December 2008). "Seth MacFarlane Named 'Smartest Person on TV,' Ken Tucker Promptly Keels Over" . Vulture blogNew York Media . Retrieved 20 December 2012 .
^ Pulitzer Prize finalists for 1984 at Pulitzer.org
^ Powers, Ann (19 April 2011). "Fiction Pulitzer Sneaks Music Writing In Through The Back Door" . The Record . NPR.org. Retrieved 20 December 2012 .
^ Warren, James (13 April 1995). "Another Reason To Celebrate: Entertainment Weekly Garners Top Honors At National Magazine Awards" . Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 20 December 2012 .
^ 35th Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Award Recipients , ASCAP , 2002.
^ 37th Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Award Recipients Archived 2011-08-27 at the Wayback Machine , ASCAP, 2004.
^ Tucker, Ken (7 October 2007). "A Formal Feeling" . The New York Times Book Review . Retrieved 20 December 2012 .
^ Tucker, Ken (20 March 2005). " . The New York Times Book Review . Retrieved 20 December 2012 .
^ About Us at The Best American Poetry
^ Tucker, Ken (26 May 1985). "Cats, Mice and History - The Avant-Carde of the Comic Strip" . The New York Times . Retrieved 20 December 2012 .
^ Heller, Steven (15 August 2011). "Times' Comics on a Roll" . Imprint the original on 2011-08-16. Retrieved 20 December 2012 .
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