We are bursting with excitement! Coming this Spring from Hat & Beard, ‘My Week Beats Your Year: Encounters with Lou Reed’, compiled by Michael Layne Heath and edited by Pat Thomas. • • • For all his publicly expressed loathing of the press in general and music journalists in particular, during his long career as a rock artist, Lou Reed was never less than entertaining in his dealings with the Fourth Estate. To the majority of his fans, the apotheosis of Reed’s relationship with the press, and most prominently regarded to this day, was the series of combative tête-à-têtes between Lou and the late great music journalist #LesterBangs, published in # CREEM Magazine during the 1970s. This anthology, then, will be one fan’s humble attempt to move beyond the Bangs canon, and delve deeper into the distance and intimacy, cactus and mercury, that constituted Lou‘s post-Velvet Underground, public media image. @loureedofficial #loureed #myweekbeatsyouryear #circusmagazine #rocknroll