Here we go, a new essential collection of Nik Cohn’s non-fiction, which, hurrah, includes “Rebecca and the Teendreams” that was given its only public airing in Cream (October 1972). Published by Ze Books, Corner Boy hits the stores in October

Here’s the publisher’s blurb:

Before rock criticism had rules, Nik Cohn was already breaking them.
Corner Boy: Loiterings New and Old gathers Nik Cohn’s nonfiction from the 1960s to the present into a single, riotous self-portrait. Moving from Derry to London, New York, and New Orleans, he writes about pop stars and boxers, club kids and hustlers, painters, prophets, disco dancers, drag queens, lowlifes, nobodies, and the half-mythic figures who live at the edge of the action.
The book draws from across Cohn’s career, including Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom, from 1968, his ground-breaking history of pop music from its beginning; Today There Are No Gentlemen, about English men’s fashion; The Heart of the World, a soul-biography of Broadway (the street); Yes We Have No, a road trip through an alternative England, seen as a banana republic, just before the new millennium; and Triksta, the saga of his misadventures in the New Orleans rap scene, as a would-be bounce impresario. Here are some of Cohn’s earliest published writings, in London’s Observer, at age nineteen, as well as his most recent: “Apprehension,” written in 2025, an 8,000-word narrative of his arrest in New York City, in 1983, for drug trafficking.