Tucson Festival of Books

Rob Sheffield



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Rob Sheffield is a columnist for Rolling Stone, where he has been writing about music, TV, and pop culture since 1997. His new book "Heartbreak is the National Anthem," looks at Taylor Swift's influence on pop music. Sheffield also wrote the national bestsellers "Love Is a Mix Tape," "One Song at a Time," "Talking to Girls About Duran Duran," "Turn Around Bright Eyes," "On Bowie" and "Dreaming the Beatles."

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Awards: ASCAP Foundation's Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism


Books:
Heartbreak Is the National Anthem
How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
HarperCollins Publishers
November 2024
ISBN 9780063351318
224 pages

Dreaming the Beatles
The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
HarperCollins
June 2018
ISBN 9780062207661
384 pages