Loudmouth

Thomas Ransom, an excitable white boy—son of the Jim Crow South, New England prep school and a bourbon-soaked Irish Catholicism—gets swept up in the race-mixing, class-baiting, death-defying world of rock ‘n’ roll, first as a singer, then as editor of Creem, the magazine that invented punk. Along the way, his mother attacks him with a carving knife, a lover’s lover attacks him with a torch, he yo-...