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Michael Goldberg (writer)
Michael Goldberg (born July 3, 1953) is a novelist, journalist, animal rights activist, and pioneering digital music entrepreneur. He is known for his work (1983-1993) at ''Rolling Stone'', where he was first a senior writer and later West Coast editor, and for envisioning and co-founding the first web music magazine, ''Addicted to Noise'', in 1994, for which ''Newsweek'' included him in its 1995 "Net 50" list of "the 50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet." Between 2014 and the fall of 2016 he published the ''Freak Scene Dream'' trilogy of '70s coming-of-age novels (''True Love Scars'', ''The Flowers Lied'', and ''Untitled''), and worked actively in animal rights causes. His nonfiction book, ''Wicked Game: The True Story of Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey'' (HoZac Books), was published in June of 2022. Early years Born in Oakland, California, Goldberg grew up across the San Francisco Bay in Marin County. He started writing short stories in elementary school, but seeing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Various forms of brackets are used in mathematics, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
