Jim Higgins, author of SWEET, WILD AND VICIOUS - an in-person Boswell event

Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Jim Higgins, author of Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground. In conversation with Piet Levy.

From the time he began recording with the Velvet Underground in the 1960s until his death in 2013, Lou Reed released nearly 50 original albums. In Sweet, Wild and Vicious, Jim Higgins delves into each one, with descriptions, details, analysis and appraisals that will amplify and expand fans’ understanding and appreciation of them.

This listener's guide is personal as well as definitive, a thoughtful consideration of Reed's entire career from the perspective of a devoted follower able to separate the highs from the lows.

From Greg Kot, cohost of Sound Opinions: "A voracious listener and gifted writer, Jim Higgins contextualizes Reed's life and aesthetic in a way that illuminates the world he created between the headphones. His recordings — by turns brilliant, confounding and daring — finally get the book they deserve. It’s nothing less than an essential addition to our understanding and appreciation of Reed/Velvets."

Jim Higgins is arts and books editor for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and a former pop music and jazz critic for the Milwaukee Sentinel. He is a two-time winner of Wisconsin Area Music Industry award for music journalist of the year and twice won the Sentinel staff-voted award for humor writing.

. Signed copies and personalization available on pre-orders. Please note that signed copies will not be shipped until after the event.

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