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David Breskin was born on 1958 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., is an American journalist. Discover David Breskin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

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Age 66 years old
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Born 1958
Birthday 1958
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1958

David Breskin (born 1958) is an American writer, poet, and record producer.

He has written nine books, including collaborations with the visual artists Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha.

1980

Beginning in the early 1980s, he produced albums by musicians including John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Ronald Shannon Jackson and Vernon Reid.

In more recent years, he has worked with Nels Cline, Mary Halvorson, Kris Davis, Dan Weiss, Ingrid Laubrock, and Craig Taborn, among others.

Breskin's poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly and New American Writing, among other journals.

Breskin was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois.

In college, as a student at Brown University, he wrote for The Village Voice.

He graduated from Brown with a B.A. in 1980, magna cum laude, with a double major in history and semiotics.

Breskin moved to New York City following his graduation.

He wrote for publications including Esquire, The Village Voice, GQ, Musician, Life, and Rolling Stone, where he was a contributing editor.

Over the course of the decade, he conducted interviews with Bono, Willie Nelson, Steven Spielberg, and Wayne Shorter, among others, and wrote feature stories on people such as musician Miles Davis, comedian Martin Short, basketball player Michael Jordan and architect Helmut Jahn.

1984

In 1984, Breskin wrote "Kids in the Dark", a Rolling Stone article about the murder of Gary Lauwers by self-professed Satanist Ricky Kasso, told almost completely in the words of the teens and young adults he interviewed in Northport, New York.

Following its publication, he co-wrote a play with Rick Cleveland, based on the story, also titled Kids In the Dark.

His 1984 piece on teen suicide, "Dear Mom and Dad", was a National Magazine Awards finalist.

1985

In 1985, after he profiled record producer Quincy Jones for LIFE, Breskin was invited to be one of two journalists present for the recording of "We Are the World", a song which benefited the charity USA For Africa.

He wrote a cover story on the subject for LIFE and later wrote the book We Are The World: The Photos, Music and Inside Story of One of the Most Historic Events in American Popular Music.

A detailed narrative of the sessions, it appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Breskin donated all royalties from the book's sales to USA for Africa.

1986

The Legion of Doom became the subject of a 1986 television movie called Brotherhood of Justice.

1987

Described by the Chicago Tribune as a "frequently gripping and deeply moving drama", it premiered at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater in 1987.

1989

In 1989, Breskin's novel, The Real Life Diary of a Boomtown Girl, was published by Viking Press.

A "candid cultural chronicle of the modern American West" based on his unpublished short story Boomers, it was optioned by Jane Fonda's film company, IPC Films.

Active in New York's avant-garde music scene since the early 80s, Breskin produced Ronald Shannon Jackson's "milestone" albums Mandance and Barbeque Dog.

He continued to produce avant-garde music throughout the decade, and became known for extensive pre-production discussion and planning and the presentation of materials such as packaging, liner notes, and videos which "engaged the visual and tactile sense to provide the best delivery of the album/concept".

Among other albums, Breskin produced Pulse, on which Jackson played solo drums, Smash & Scatteration, which paired Bill Frisell with pre-Living Colour Vernon Reid; Strange Meeting (with Jackson, Frisell, and Melvin Gibbs) and "Two-Lane Highway" featuring Albert Collins on John Zorn's Spillane.

1990

Breskin moved to San Francisco in 1990.

1992

In 1992, longer versions of seven of his Rolling Stone interviews conducted with film directors Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch, Oliver Stone, Spike Lee, David Cronenberg and Tim Burton were published by Faber and Faber as Inner Views: Filmmakers in Conversation.

1993

Breskin's original article was included in the 1993 anthology The Best of Rolling Stone: 25 Years of Journalism on the Edge, and the play was nominated for a 1987 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work.

1997

An eighth Q&A with Clint Eastwood was included in a later, expanded edition of the book under the same title, published by Da Capo Press in 1997.

A finalist for the National Poetry Series, Breskin's first book of poetry, Fresh Kills, was published in 1997; his second, Escape Velocity, was released in 2004.

2006

It was followed in 2006 by SUPERMODEL, a one sentence epic poem told in two interwoven strands: one which follows the life of the unnamed supermodel of the title, the other which is composed of fragments of text found online.

2010

In 2010, Delmonico Books / Prestel published Breskin's multi-media book DIRTY BABY.

It featured sixty-six paintings by American artist Ed Ruscha, original music by Nels Cline, and "beautiful, lush" poems by Breskin that employ the ancient Arabic poetic form, the ghazal.

The book consists of two parts or "sides": side A describes the rise of human civilization, and side B provides an account, in a variety of voices, of the second Iraq War.

The book includes four CDs, two of Cline's music and two of spoken-word poetry.

2016

About the book, he wrote: "On February 1, 2016, the date of the Iowa Caucus, the traditional onside kick which begins every presidential scrum, I decided to write a single poem "about" the election, with the vague idea I might write another. To allow for the possibility that something serial, tight, and deliberate might actually happen, I knew I needed a form—an existing form or one of my own. Having toiled (happily) upon the sweltering rack of the ghazal for my last project (DIRTY BABY), I thought it would be more fun to just concoct something. I didn't want anything symmetrical or pleasant. I wanted something wrong-footed and corrugated, but self-contained. So: I created a deliberately awkward, rollickingly restrictive form—seven beats per line, eleven lines per poem, one stanza fits all. And given our country's preference for the convenience of sound-bite news and junk-food polls over more nutritious fare, I decided to call them '7-Elevens.' Slurpee Heaven, 7-Eleven.

Seventy-seven beats per poem, no exceptions: it's got a beat and you can't dance to it."

2017

Breskin's sixth book of poetry, Campaign, was published in print and as an audiobook in late 2017.

2018

Breskin's time researching the Kasso story is chronicled in the 2018 book "The Acid King" by Jesse P. Pollack.

Breskin also wrote "Leave It to Beaver", an investigation into a group of high school vigilantes in Fort Worth, Texas, who called themselves the Legion of Doom.