Howard Fishman on Connie Converse

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Author and musician Howard Fishman will give a guest lecture on mysterious singer-songwriter Connie Converse during Music Workshop. Connie Converse was a mid-century New York City songwriter, singer, and composer whose haunting music never found broad recognition, and who disappeared in 1974.

Howard Fishman is an author, musician, composer, theatre-maker, and cultural essayist, based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, and his writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, The Telegraph, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, ArtForum, The Village Voice, and The San Francisco Chronicle. His book debut, To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse, is out now from Dutton (Penguin Random House).