Lytle Shaw

is a New York–based writer and critic whose books include Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie, The Moiré Effect, and, most recently, The Mollino Set. He is a contributing editor for Cabinet magazine and teaches at New York University and the University of Limerick.

Contributions

Captains of High Fidelity

Lytle Shaw

,

February 1, 2026

“One of the jobs of these guild musicians was to recompose what was hip at the time and smoothen its edges, turn it into an ambiance.”—Lytle Shaw