Eric A. Gordon

Eric A. Gordon, People’s World Cultural Editor, wrote a biography of radical American composer Marc Blitzstein and co-authored composer Earl Robinson’s autobiography. He has received numerous awards for his People's World writing from the International Labor Communications Association. He has translated all nine books of fiction by Manuel Tiago (pseudonym for Álvaro Cunhal) from Portuguese, available from International Publishers NY.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon

Culture

Blues singer Bessie Smith shines in a new novel in memoir form
January 7, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
If Bessie Smith’s story itself is an American phenomenon worthy of recapitulating in any number of artistic forms, it’s as a writer that Crittendon shines.
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Books

‘The Red Raven’: A quartet of crime fiction novels ends in AIDS-era L.A.
December 27, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
The literary world has lost an important voice that spoke not just to the LGBTQ community but to any reader who loves a good crime story with a redemptive ending. Steve Johnson’s work survives him.
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Opinion

It’s high time for a new United Front Against Fascism
December 16, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
Many Democrats, liberals, progressives, media commentators, and even some on the self-defined left, have assumed an “It Can’t Happen Here” attitude, still holding onto a fantasy of bipartisanship.
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Culture

A small but mighty IATSE organizing drive pops up in Beverly Hills
December 16, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
Workers at The Wallis won a union representation vote, but management has yet to recognize it or even agree on who is eligible to be the unit—supervisors, part-timers?
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Culture

‘Good People’: Some are better than you think, others a whole lot worse
December 14, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
The “good people” of the title are those who subjectively earn that title by some combination of lineage, class, morals and behavior. But it’s a shape-shifting concept.
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Culture

Two new CDs about life in America
December 2, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
It’s almost as if the impulse to keep singing is what keeps us alive—and maybe it’s true.
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Culture

‘Paradise Blue’ evokes 1949 Detroit and early wave of gentrification
November 24, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
Tony Award-nominated playwright Dominique Morisseau takes us back to 1949 in Paradise Blue.
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Culture

‘Roots’: Randall Goosby explores the Black experience on his violin
November 18, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
The violin, or its cousins in the many musical cultures of the world, is considered among the most expressive of instruments, closely tuned to the timbres and pulse of the human voice.
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