TRAPPED IN THIS WORLD: Pop Culture on the Edge

I’ve just released a massive (and I mean massive—over 730 pages) compendium of my pop culture journalism titled Trapped in This World: Pop Culture on the Edge, featuring articles on artists like Joy Division, the Monks, Bobby Fuller, Ativin, Del Close, and many many others. It’s been a long time coming and it’s a huge labor of love, but I’m pleased to finally be able to bring this collection to publication and I’m proud to say the final product surpassed my expectations.

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Acclaimed Author/Musician A. J. Payler Releases TRAPPED IN THIS WORLD: Pop Culture on the Edge—The Omnibus of Pop Culture Writing by A. J. Payler (writing as Aaron Poehler) 

Newly expanded by over 350 pages—over a hundred thousand words of articles and reviews previously unseen for decades!

From the murder of Bobby Fuller to the ascent of Soul Asylum, A. J. Payler covered the most interesting corners of the music world during a time of unprecedented upheaval and change in the music industry.

Ferreting out little-exposed corners of pop culture with the tenacity of a devotee, Trapped in This World: Pop Culture on the Edge—The Omnibus of Pop Culture Writing by A. J. Payler (writing as Aaron Poehler) is the most expansive collection of his nonfiction writing available, including pieces that originally appeared in Flipside, Tail Spins, Eye Magazine, Razorcake, BC Magazine and many other publications, including interviews, profiles, and over five hundred music reviews found nowhere else.

Featuring:

· Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum

· The Strange Case of Bobby Fuller

· Back to Monk Time with The Monks

· Making Time for the Creation

· In the Eyes of St. Nic of Detroit

· Behind the Curtain of the Record Industry with Moses Avalon

· The Saga of Iggy Pop & the Stooges

· Bill Hicks: Preaching Comedy’s Dark Side

· Del Close and Wasteland—Interview with John Ostrander

· “I Want to Last”—Interview with Kevin Shima of Homunculus

· Ativin

· Jimi Hendrix

· Joy Division

· Slim Moon (Kill Rock Stars)

· Spacemen 3

· Les Sexareenos

· Electric Frankenstein

· My Dad is Dead

· Sunset Sessions

· Columns for Razorcake

· Plus over five hundred reviews!