Marc Spitz

Spitz is the author of the novels, How Soon Is Never, and Too Much, Too Late and the biographies We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk, Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times and Music of Green Day, Bowie: A Biography and Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue. He is a regular contributor to Uncut magazine in the U.K. and his writing on rock and roll and popular culture has appeared in Spin, Maxim, Nylon, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine and The New York Times. He currently blogs about music for Vanity Fair’s VF Daily (www.vanityfair.com)

Since emerging in 1998 on the Ludlow Street scene centered around Todo Con Nada, Marc Spitz has written and co-produced a dozen plays including “Retail Sluts,” “The Rise and Fall of the Farewell Drugs,” “…Worry, Baby,” “I Wanna Be Adored,” “Shyness Is Nice,” “Gravity Always Wins,” “Your Face Is A Mess,” and “Up For Anything.” “Shyness Is Nice” appears in the Applause anthology One on One: The Best Men’s Monologues For the 21st Century, as well as Plays and Playwrights 2002 (edited by Martin Denton).