Carola Dibbell

American music journalist and author

Music journalist
author

Alma materRadcliffe CollegeGenreScience fictionSpouse

Robert Christgau

(m. 1974)

Children1Websitecaroladibbell.com

Carola Dibbell (born April 4, 1945)^[1]^[2] is an American music journalist and author.

Biography

Dibbell was born in New York City and grew up in Greenwich Village.^[3] She attended Hunter College High School and is a graduate of Radcliffe College.

Her short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, and other publications.^[3] She has also written music and film reviews, as well as articles about children's media, for the Village Voice.^[3] Her first book, the sci-fi novel The Only Ones, was published by Two Dollar Radio in 2015. The Washington Post's Nancy Hightower named it one of the best science fiction books of 2015.^[4]

Dibbell married music critic Robert Christgau, who introduced her to music criticism in 1974.^[3]^[5] They adopted a daughter, Nina Dibbell Christgau.^[6]

References

^ Obenauf, Eric (April 5, 2015). "Human Voices: Carola Dibbell Interviewed".
^ Lethem, Jonathan; Dettmar, Kevin (23 May 2017). Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z. Library of America. ISBN 9781598535327.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "About Carola Dibbell". Caroladibbell.com. Archived from the original on 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
^ Hightower, Nancy (18 November 2015). "Best science fiction and fantasy books of 2015". The Washington Post.
^ Stevens, Dana (4 March 2015). "Beautifully, Profoundly, Naively, Contradictorily, Romantically, Kinetically, Jokily, Cockily, Fearfully, Drunkenly, Goofily, Impudently". Slate.
^ Jaffe Robins, Sonia (April 29, 2015). "PW Talks with Carola Dibbell". Publishers Weekly.