Carola Dibbell (born April 4, 1945) is an American music journalist and author.

Biography

Dibbell was born in

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and grew up in

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. She attended

Hunter College High School Hunter College High School is a public academic magnet secondary school located in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It is administered and funded by Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and no t ...

and is a graduate of

Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879. In 1999, it was fully incorporated into Harvard Colle ...

. Her short stories have appeared in ''

the New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York T ...

'', '' Paris Review'', and other publications. She has also written music and film reviews, as well as articles about children's media, for the ''

Village Voice ''The Village Voice'' is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock, and Norman Ma ...

''. Her first book, the sci-fi novel ''The Only Ones'', was published by Two Dollar Radio in 2015. ''

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''s Nancy Hightower named it one of the best science fiction books of 2015. Dibbell married music critic

Robert Christgau Robert Thomas Christgau ( ; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and later became a ...

, who introduced her to music criticism in 1974. They adopted a daughter, Nina Dibbell Christgau.

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