Nik Cohn Releases Non-Fiction Collection Corner Boy

Nik Cohn has published Corner Boy: Loiterings New and Old, a collection containing 60 years of his non-fiction writings. Editor Ben Ratliff assisted Cohn with selecting the pieces for the collection. Fifty percent of Delinquent in Derry, one of the opening texts of the book, was updated.

Cohn began his writing career at age 18 at The Observer and wrote about music between 1964 and 1970. His rock and roll book Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock was published in 1969.

In 1976, Cohn published the article Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night in New York magazine, which became the film Saturday Night Fever. Twenty years after its publication, Cohn revealed that he made up most of its content. Cohn and Ratliff will meet to speak about Corner Boy on October 27 at the 92nd Street Y in New York.