Record Everything: Hanif Abdurraqib, Jessica Hopper and Rob Sheffield in conversation at the Brooklyn Book Festival
From the Beatles to David Bowie to Carly Rae Jepsen — as the Brooklyn Book Festival wound down, the writers on one of the last panels of the day, “Writing About Music and the Self,” sat on an outdoor stage on Cadman Plaza to talk influences, album covers and the concert experience.
Rob Sheffield (“Dreaming of the Beatles”) read a passage from his newest book about the Beatles song “It Won’t Be Long” the song with the highest number of “yeahs” in the band’s whole repertoire.
Jessica Hopper (“Night Moves”) read an excerpt from an essay called “There Is a Light on My Bike and it Never Goes Out” about biking around Chicago from show to show, avoiding ex-boyfriends working the doors and passing out candy to familiar faces in the venues.