BRIAN CULLMAN is a writer and musician based in New York and France. He has written extensively for La Revista de París, Antaeus, Rolling Stone, y The Village Voice, and has won the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism three times. He has three solo albums on Sunnyside and is currently a member of Lisbon-based group Rua Das Pretas. How to Prepare for the Past: Travels in Music and Time (ZE Books) is his first memoir.