Author Spotlight

Paul Grimstad

Paul Grimstad’s songs and original scores have been in movies by the Safdie brothers, Sean Price Williams, Nathan Silver, Albert Maysles, and others. His writing has appeared in print and online in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the Baffler, n+1, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. He teaches in the humanities program at Yale.

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Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser: Thelonious in Action

Drawing from over a dozen hours of black-and-white footage, Direct Cinema pioneer Charlotte Zwerin created this elliptical and moving portrait of one of American music’s most original artists.

By Paul Grimstad