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Eric Nuzum

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born

August 14, 1966 in Canton, Ohio, The United States

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http://ericnuzum.com

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ERIC NUZUM is a recovering pop culture critic, VH1 pundit, and author of Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Music, A Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to be Haunted (2012), The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula (2007/2008) and Parental Advisory: Music Censorship in America (2001). He writes a lot of inane stuff that falls somewhere between the styles of Ted Kaczynski and Robert Frost, with a dash of inappropriate jokes thrown in for good measure. Nuzum was awarded the 2002 National Edward R. Murrow Award for News Writing and his work has appeared in a few publications you’ve heard of and many more that you haven’t heard of. He works for National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. and live...more

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Fables From My Reconstruction

When I was eighteen, I spent most evenings driving around Canton, Ohio, drinking cheap Weidemann's beer, heading no where yet still driving as fast as I could away from where I was at. These drives were fueled by the thirty cassette tapes I managed to wedge into a plastic case designed to hold twenty-four: Echo and the Bunnymen, Killing Joke, The Smiths, Gang of Four, and Bauhaus. I liked my m...

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Books by Eric Nuzum

Average rating: 3.71 · 368 ratings · 97 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula 3.68 avg rating — 302 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Parental Advisory: Music Censorship in America 3.83 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, a Lost Scrap of Paper, Noises from the Attic, and What It Means to Be Haunted 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:

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Author appearance, August 07, 2012 07:00PM — 2 people invited
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Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

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