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Neal Karlen

Neal Karlen
Neal Karlen is a former contributing editor for Rolling Stone, Newsweek staff writer, and regular contributor to The New York Times. He is the author of Babes in Toyland: The Making and Selling of a Rock and Roll Band, and other books ranging in content from minor league baseball to fundamentalist religion to linguistics. A graduate of Brown University, he lives in his hometown of Minneapolis.


Prince Was One of the Loneliest Souls I’ve Ever Met

Neal Karlen on His Complicated Relationship with an American Icon
October 8, 2020  By Neal Karlen
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