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Peter Trachtenberg

Peter Trachtenberg is a nonfiction writer and journalist whose books include 7 Tattoos and The Book of Calamities. His latest book, Another Insane Devotion, the story of a search for a missing cat that opens into a meditation on love and marriage, was just published by Da Capo. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Fellowship, and a Bellagio residency from the Rockefeller Foundation. He teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.

Summer 2013

Tomorrow and Tomorrow

By Peter Trachtenberg

Some radio stations refused to play it because of the sexual voltage of the lyrics. It’s ranked 126 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (“Like a Rolling Stone” is number one).