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Art Tavana (he/him/his) is an award-winning writer & author of Goodbye, Guns N' Roses.
His byline has appeared in The Village Voice, VICE, Penthouse, Billboard, Pitchfork, Paste, The AV Club, Longform, MTV News, USA Today, Consequence of Sound, The Hollywood Reporter, The Spectator, Penthouse, and as a columnist at Playboy, HelloGiggles, and LA Weekly (where he was nominated for two LA Press Club Awards).
Art's work has been discussed in The New York Times, Nylon, Insider, and Bret Easton Ellis's first nonfiction book, White. He currently teaches creative writing at UC Davis.
 Profile: Lauren Alice Avery [LA Weekly cover story] |  Profile: Sasha Grey [LA Press Club Award nominee] |  Democracy of Sound: Is GarageBand Good for Music? [Pitchfork] |
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 Thirty-Five Years of Crying to 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' [The Spectator] |  Examining the Feminist Revolution in Women's Wrestling [Playboy] |  Interview: Oliver Stone [The Hollywood Reporter] |
 Lana Del Rey: In Praise of a Difficult Woman [Arc Digital] |  Vince McMahon: the modern-day P.T. Barnum who changed America [The Spectator] |  Four Days in a Row of Ty Segall: America's Next Guitar Hero [Consequence of Sound] |
 A Love Letter to 'Almost Famous' [Arc Digital] |  'Cleopatra' Still Dazzles 60 Years Later [The Spectator] |  Interview: P.J. O'Rourke [Playboy] |
 The Shock Value of Lena Dunham [The Spectator] |  Why 'F is for Family' is Funny [Arc Digital] |  Women of the Gun: Instagram's Gun Porn Stars [Penthouse] |
 Profile: Izzy Stradlin [Winner of 2017 LA Press Club Award] |  How Netflix Changed Comedy [The Spectator] |  The Romcom’s ‘Ticket to Paradise’? Women [The Spectator] |
 Concert Review: Dum Dum Girls [HuffPost] |  The Divisive Legacy & Surprising Future of 'Chinese Democracy' [Billboard] |  Concert Review: Final Vivian Girls' Show [LA Weekly] |
 Is Dave Chappelle Punching Up or Down? [Arc Digital] |  Profile: Colleen Green [LA Weekly] |  The Dangerous Brand of Milo Yiannopoulos [Playboy] |
 “Sweet Child O’ Mine” marked a turning point for Guns N’ Roses [The A.V. Club] |  19 of the Loneliest Films Ever Made [Quillette] |  Studying the Music from the John Hughes Canon [LA Weekly] |
 Why Are People Still Debating Whether Die Hard is a Christmas Movie? [LA Weekly] |  How an Underground Wrestling League in the Valley Made L.A. an Indie Wrestling Mecca [LA Weekly] |  Profile: Jeff Hardy [LA Weekly] |
 'Last Call With Carson Daly' Has Become Late-Night TV's Best Show for New Music [LA Weekly] |  Obituary: Buck Henry [Quillette] |  Profile: Drab Majesty [LA Weekly] |
 Trump's Apprentice: Inside a Millennial's Rise to the President's Side [Playboy] |  Every Best Coast Song, Ranked [LA Weekly] |  Review: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood [The Spectator] |
 Every Tool Song, Ranked [LA Weekly] |  Profile: AnnMaria De Mars [LA Weekly] |  NOFX's Fat Mike Defined '90s Punk Mischief [LA Weekly] |
 Profile: Cooper Hefner [LA Weekly] |  Confessions of a Mall Rat [LA Weekly] |  Concert Review: Burgerama III [LA Weekly] |
 10 Reasons Why 1994 Was the Best Year for Music [The Village Voice] |  L.A.'s Top 10 Rising Female-Fronted Bands [LA Weekly] |  Review: Best Coast [Paste] |
 The Vans Warped Tour 2015: Welcome to All-Ages Capitalism [LA Weekly] |  Concert Review: The Smell's 17th Anniversary Show [LA Weekly] |  Profile: West Coast Rap Legend Ras Kass [LA Weekly] |
 Concert Review: The Guns N' Roses Reunion [LA Weekly] |  A&R Legend Tom Zutaut Risked His Job to Sign Guns N' Roses [LA Weekly] |
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