Recovering musician Seth Kaufman grew up overseas, in Kenya and India, the son of a foreign correspondent. He ran a popular online music store where he sold so many copies of Kenny G records he should be tried at The Hague. He has written a number of books, including The King of Pain (“One of 2012’s most enjoyable novels” —The New York Times), contributed humor pieces to the New Yorker website and freelanced for many other publications.

METAPHYSICAL GRAFFITI Rock’s Most Mind-Bending Questions Seth Kaufman Metaphysical Graffiti is a provocative, inflammatory, hilarious, but ultimately serious book about not only the essential questions of rock, but also the deeper, metaphysical roots of those questions. More