{"id":483068,"date":"2019-03-06T11:10:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T18:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=804024"},"modified":"2019-03-06T11:10:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T18:10:23","slug":"pete-townshend-pens-first-novel-the-age-of-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/pete-townshend-pens-first-novel-the-age-of-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Townshend Pens First Novel \u2018The Age of Anxiety\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/8992737gW.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The Who\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/pete-townshend\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pete-townshend\" data-tag=\"pete-townshend\">Pete Townshend<\/a>, the creator of rock operas like <em>Tommy<\/em> and <em>Quadrophenia<\/em>, has penned his first \u201crock novel.\u201d <em>The Age of Anxiety<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/titles\/pete-townshend\/the-age-of-anxiety\/9781478976806\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">due out November 5th<\/a>, is an \u201cextended meditation on manic genius and the dark art of creativity,\u201d the novel\u2019s publishers Hachette Books and Coronet announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The multimedia-minded Townshend also revealed that the novel is the first chapter in a three-part <em>Age of Anxiety<\/em> project that also includes an art installation and an opera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTen years ago I decided to create a magnum opus that would combine opera, art installation and novel,\u201d Townshend said in a statement. \u201cSuddenly here I am with a completed novel ready to publish. I am an avid reader and have really enjoyed writing it. I am also happy to say the majority of the music is composed, ready to be polished up for release and performance. It\u2019s tremendously exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coronet publisher Mark Booth said of the London-set <em>The Age of Anxiety<\/em>, \u201cThe novel captures the craziness of the music business and displays Townshend\u2019s sly sense of humor and sharp ear for dialogue. First conceived as an opera, <em>The Age of Anxiety<\/em> deals with mythic and operatic themes including a maze, divine madness and long-lost children. Hallucinations and soundscapes haunt this novel, which on one level is an extended meditation on manic genius and the dark art of creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/mar\/05\/the-whos-pete-townshend-announces-debut-novel-the-age-of-anxiety\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Guardian<\/em> noted<\/a> that <em>The Age of Anxiety<\/em> isn\u2019t Townshend\u2019s first foray into fiction writing: The guitarist previously published his short story collection <em>Horse\u2019s Neck<\/em> in 1985 and completed \u2013 but never published \u2013 a novel titled Ray High and the Glass Household, although portions of that story were reused for his 1993 album Psychoderelict. Townshend, who owned a bookstore and worked as an editor at Haber &amp; Haber, also recorded the album White City: A Novel in 1985.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/pete-townshend-first-novel-age-of-anxiety-804024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Who\u2019s Pete Townshend, the creator of rock operas like Tommy and Quadrophenia, has penned his first \u201crock novel.\u201d The Age of Anxiety, due out November 5th, is an \u201cextended meditation on manic genius and the dark art of creativity,\u201d the novel\u2019s publishers Hachette Books and Coronet announced Tuesday. The multimedia-minded Townshend also revealed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 01:14:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}