Dave Mandl’s writing and photography have appeared in the Wire magazine, The Believer, Slate, Flavorwire, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and many other publications. He has worked as a book editor at Semiotext(e)/Autonomedia, and as music editor for the Brooklyn Rail. He hosts a weekly radio show, World of Echo, at WFMU-FM.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Gentrification of Boston’s South End
What is interesting about the South End story is what it reveals about gentrification generally, old or new, diverse or not....
Hidden Histories
Dave Mandl on urban history and John Rogers's thinking-out-loud travelogue, "This Other London."...
Performance Anxiety: David Grubbs’s “Records Ruin the Landscape”
Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording...
A Master Class in the Avant-Garde: Alvin Lucier’s “Music 109”
ALVIN LUCIER'S MUSIC 109 is one of the oddest books about music I’ve ever come across. Lucier has been an ...
