Welcome to the homepage of Cleveland, Ohio-based author, journalist and editor Annie Zaleski. I’m an award-winning writer with profiles, interviews, and criticism in a variety of publications. Bylines include Rolling Stone, NPR Music, The Guardian, Salon, Time, Billboard, Classic Pop, Record Collector, The A.V. Club, Vulture, The Los Angeles Times, Stereogum, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Las Vegas Weekly.
I’m the author of a 33 1/3 book on Duran Duran’s Rio; the illustrated biographies Lady Gaga: Applause and Pink, Raise Your Glass; and the music history book This is Christmas, Song by Song. I’ve also contributed essays to multiple books, along with liner notes to the 2016 reissue of R.E.M.’s Out of Time, Game Theory’s 2020 collection Across The Barrier Of Sound: PostScript, and the 2023 deluxe edition of Jason Mraz’s We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. Additionally, I was commissioned by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to write Duran Duran’s induction essay.
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