Event Recording
April 28, 2021
Jonathan Taplin has been tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band, a producer of major films, the creator of the Internet’s first Video-on-Demand service, and a cultural critic writing about technology. In his new book, The Magic Years: Scenes from a Rock-and-Roll Life, Taplin “makes a convincing case for art’s power to deliver us from ‘passionless detachment’ and rekindle our humanism.” In this special conversation with Authors Guild Council member Jonathan Taplin and the Guild’s president, Douglas Preston discuss the role that artists played in the social justice movements of the ’60s and ’70s and how that relates to the role artists play in today’s society.
