Brian Cullman on ‘How to Prepare For The Past’ (Woodstock)

November 7, 4:30 PM ET • Woodstock, NY: The Golden Notebook | 29 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498

Join ZE Books at The Golden Notebook for an afternoon with How to Prepare For The Past: Travels In Music and Time, Brian Cullman’s memoir of a life in music.

How to Prepare For The Past: Travels In Music and Time is writer and musician Brian Cullman’s rapturous evocation of life in the bike lane—before the world was digital, when music was everything and magic was everywhere—encompassing friendships with Lester Bangs, Nick Drake, Big Joe Turner, Tim Hardin, and Paul Bowles.

The book moves between New York, London, Tangier, and points further out, gathering the encounters, near-misses, and long nights of a life spent listening. It begins with the radio as a first love: “It was all one sound. It was all one song: the drums and the words, the words without words, the rhythm and the static and the joy and amplified tears.”

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About the Author

Brian Cullman is a writer and musician based in New York and in France. He has written extensively for The Paris Review, Antaeus, Rolling Stone, and The Village Voice, and has won the ASCAP/Deems Taylor award for excellence in music journalism three times. He has three solo albums on Sunnyside and is currently a member of the Lisbon-based group Rua Das Pretas.

About the Venue

The Golden Notebook has been Woodstock’s bookstore since 1978, when Ellen Shapiro and Barry Samuels opened it in a former pharmacy on Tinker Street. Jacqueline Kellachan bought the store in 2010, and James Conrad joined as co-owner in 2015. Between them they put on more than ninety author events a year, which is a great many readings for a shop that bills itself as the biggest small bookstore in America. goldennotebook.com

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