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Ted Scheinman

About

Ted Scheinman lives in California, where he is a senior editor of Pacific Standard magazine. His essays, reporting, and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review, Playboy, and Slate.

Articles

The Swami of Swamp Rock

By Ted Scheinman

AMERICAN BEDROCK

John Ehle's  The Land Breakers, back in print: "In her introduction to the new edition, Linda Spalding calls  The Land Breakers “a Chaucerian pageant.” So it is, but far, far...

By Ted Scheinman

J. COLE AT THE SOURCE

After listening to a leak of J. Cole’s forthcoming sophomore album  Born Sinner, I drove two hours during a statewide tornado watch to ask what, if anything, Cole’s ascent means to people...

By Ted Scheinman
Web Feature

The Happiness Blues

Since his first recordings in the 1940s, B.B. King exuded a sunny elegance very much at odds with the tragedians of the early blues.

By Ted Scheinman