Colourful, self-deprecating memoir.

While there is no shortage of books that celebrate the glory of music journalism, Kessler’s book is arguably one of the first to offer a post-mortem of sorts.

After reading Ted Kessler’s account of living through the last hurrah and the slow decline of the music press, you would have to conclude that what starts out as a dream job is apt to dissolve into a nightmare.

Paper Cuts is primarily an elegiac hymn to that already sepia-tinted era.

Ted Kessler’s Paper Cuts will be of interest not only to music lovers, but also magazine aficionados.