Jody Rosen
Autor de Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
Sobre El Autor
Jody Rosen was born in New York City in 1969. His articles on popular music and the arts have appeared in The New York Times and Salon.com. He lives in Manhattan
Créditos de la imagen: Photo by Joe Mabel (Wikipedia)
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1969
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
- País (para mapa)
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York City, New York, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
- Ocupaciones
- journalist
music critic - Organizaciones
- Slate
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 3
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 220
- Popularidad
- #101,715
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 23
- Idiomas
- 6
Rosen tells the story engagingly, so if you've been living on another planet, this would be a good entry point for learning about cycling as an Earth-phenomenon. To be fair, he does also pick up a few threads that earlier writers have missed, although he has to go rather out of his way to find them: we learn about bicycles and sex; the bike culture of Longyearbyen, in Svalbard; the rickshaws of Dhaka; the nascent fixie culture in Beijing; and the royal cyclists of Bhutan. He also brings us up to date on the role of cycling during the Covid lockdowns and BLM protests of recent years. So not a complete waste of time, but it's certainly well over on the "journalism" side of the scale, more of an affectionate tribute to cycling as a worldwide phenomenon than any sort of serious analysis.… (más)