THURSTON MOORE ON SONIC LIFE: A MEMOIR

JOHNNY TEMPLE is publisher and editor-in-chief of Akashic Books, a Brooklyn, New York-based independent publisher. He is the editor of the anthology USA Noir, which was selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Temple has taught courses on the publishing business at Wilkes University, Wesleyan University, and Pratt Institute, and is a co-chair of the Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council. He also plays bass in the bands Girls Against Boys, Soulside, and Fake Names, which have toured extensively across the globe and released numerous albums on independent and major record labels.

THURSTON MOORE is a founding member of Sonic Youth, a band born in New York in 1981 that spent 30 years at the vanguard of alternative rock, influencing and inspiring acts such as Nirvana, Pavement, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine, and Beck. The band’s album “Daydream Nation” was selected by the Library of Congress for historical preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2006. Moore is involved in publishing and poetry, and teaches at the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He divides his time between the U.S. and England.