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Jarvis Cocker is going to be a book editor now

by Nicole Villeneuve

UK publishing house Faber & Faber is releasing Jarvis Cocker’s book Mother, Brother, Lover, a selection of Cocker’s lyrics with commentary and an introduction, next week, but it was announced this week that Cocker will get some more work out of them, too—he’s been appointed an editor-at-large for the company.

“I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity,” said Cocker. “It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.”

Faber call themselves the “major publishing home for engaged and challenging writing about pop culture,” and Pete Townshend has also previously held an editorial consulting position with the company in the 80s, acquiring Jon Savage’s England’s Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, The Faber Book of Pop, and Charles Shaar Murray’s Hendrix book, Crosstown Traffic. [via Prefix]