Editing Elvis Costello (section)

== Writing ==

Since the early 1980s, Costello has written about music for publications including ''[[Hot Press]],''<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=9 July 1981|title=My favourite album |magazine=Hot Press|location=Dublin, Ireland}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=16 July 1987|title=E.C. was here|magazine=Hot Press|location=Dublin, Ireland}}</ref> [[Details (magazine)|''Details'']],<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=October 1998|title=What the World need now |magazine=Details|publisher=Conde Nast}}</ref> [[Mojo (magazine)|''Mojo'']],{{efn| Costello wrote articles for ''Mojo'' in 1994,<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=June 1994|title=Music in the movies|magazine=Mojo|location=London}}</ref> 1998 (three articles),<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=January 1998|title=The best thing I've heard all year |magazine=Mojo|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=February 1998|title=Unafraid |magazine=Mojo|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=July 1998|title=Frank Sinatra|magazine=Mojo|location=London}}</ref> 1999,<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=October 1999|title=Attack of the killer organ|magazine=Mojo|location=London}}</ref> 2002 (two articles),<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=March 2002|title=Hero: Leslie Vinyl |magazine=Mojo|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=August 2002|title=Paul McCartney |magazine=Mojo|location=London}}</ref> and 2014.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=January 2014|title=The best thing I've heard all year |magazine=Mojo|location=London}}</ref>}} [[Musician (magazine)|''Musician'']],<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=March 1988 |title=Talking Animals, T Bone Burnett [review]|magazine=Musician}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=January 1995 |title=Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, Peter Guralnick [review]|magazine=Musician}}</ref> ''[[NME]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=2 May 1998 |title=Goodbye...And Hello, Jeff Buckley Remembered [contributor] |magazine=NME |location=London }}</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'',<ref name="Costello-2010"/> and [[Vanity Fair (magazine)|''Vanity Fair.'']]<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=November 2000|title=Costello's 500 |magazine=Vanity Fair|publisher=Conde Nast}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=November 2002|title=Rocking around the clock|magazine=Vanity Fair|publisher=Conde Nast}}</ref><ref name="Costello-2004"/> He has also written several articles about [[Association football|football (soccer)]], as an avid and knowledgeable fan, for the [[The Times|''Times'' of London]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=My red-hot love affair|last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=11 May 2001|work=The Times|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Voice of the Kop|last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=12 May 2001|work=The Times|publication-place=London}}</ref><ref name="Costello">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/fretting-while-the-scarlet-tide-make-history-t57232nm5fr|title=Fretting while the scarlet tide make history|last=Costello|first=Elvis|date=30 May 2005|work=The Times|access-date=28 June 2018|location=London}}</ref> A ''Vanity Fair'' editor who worked with Costello said his "[[Copy (written)|copy]] was clean, elegant, and ready to run".<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Windolf|first=Jim|date=November 2008|title=(What's So Funny 'Bout) Colbert and Costello?|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/11/whats-so-funny-bout-colbert-and-costello|magazine=Vanity Fair|access-date=28 June 2018}}</ref>

Costello has written liner notes for releases by artists including Gram Parsons,<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=Gram Parsons liner notes|year=1982 |first=Elvis |last=Costello |type=inset |publisher=[[Warner Bros]]}}</ref> the [[The Fairfield Four|Fairfield Four]],<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray liner notes|year=1997 |first=Elvis |last=Costello |type=inset |publisher=[[Warner Bros]]}}</ref> [[Dusty Springfield]],<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=Dusty in Memphis liner notes|title-link=Dusty in Memphis |year=2002 |first=Elvis |last=Costello |type=inset |publisher=[[Philips Records]]}}</ref> [[Booker T. & the M.G.'s]],<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=Booker T and the M.G.'s Stax Profiles liner notes|year=2006 |first=Elvis |last=Costello |type=booklet |publisher=[[Stax Records]]}}</ref> Burt Bacharach,<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=Magic Moments –- The Definitive Burt Bacharach Collection liner notes|year=2008 |first=Elvis |last=Costello |type=booklet |publisher=[[Rhino Records]]}}</ref> and [[Bill Frisell]].<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=The Best Of Bill Frisell, Vol. 1: Folk Songs liner notes|year=2009 |first=Elvis |last=Costello |type=inset |publisher=[[Nonesuch Records]]}}</ref> He has written forewords to books by Geoff Emerick,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles (foreword)|last=Costello|first=Elvis|publisher=Gotham Books|date=2006|isbn=978-1-59240-179-6|location=United States|pages=ix-xi}}</ref> [[Loretta Lynn]],<ref>{{Cite book|title=Honky Tonk Girl: My Life In Lyrics, Loretta Lynn (foreword)|last=Costello|first=Elvis|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|year=2012|isbn=978-0-307-59489-1|location=United States|pages=vii-ix}}
</ref> and [[Wanda Jackson]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Every Night Is Saturday Night: A Country Girl's Journey To The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Wanda Jackson (foreword) |last=Costello|first=Elvis|publisher=BMG Books|year=2014|isbn=978-1-947026-01-8|location=United States|pages=v-vi}}</ref>

In 1993, Costello began reissuing his catalogue of albums from 1977 through 1986, on Rykodisc, and wrote detailed liner notes for each reissued album. Reviewers praised these liner notes as frank and charming.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Daily_Oklahoman,_September_1,_1995|title=1986 Costello album reissued|last=Okamoto|first=David|date=1 September 1995|work=Daily Oklahoman}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Hartford_Courant,_May_11,_1995|title=Costello's latest is basic pleasure|last=Catlin|first=Roger|date=11 May 1995|work=Hartford Courant}}</ref> In 2001, he began a second round of reissues, this time of his catalogue from 1977 through 1996, on [[Rhino Entertainment]], and wrote even more detailed liner notes. ''[[Goldmine (magazine)|Goldmine]]'' said the Rhino liner notes brought "a wealth of insight into the songs and the creative process itself" and that "liner notes simply don't get any better than this".<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Smith|first=Tierney|date=4 February 2005|title=Almost Blue, Goodbye Cruel World, Kojak Variety|url=http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Goldmine,_February_4,_2005|magazine=Goldmine}}</ref> ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' called them "truly fascinating".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10712-my-aim-is-true-deluxe-edition/|title=Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True [Deluxe Edition]|last=LeMay|first=Matt|date=1 October 2007|website=Pitchfork|access-date=11 June 2018}}</ref> Several journalists noted that, at a total of 60,000 words, the Rhino liner notes amounted to a serialised memoir.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Willman|first=Chris|date=17 May 2002|title=2002 E.C.|url=http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Entertainment_Weekly,_May_17,_2002|magazine=Entertainment Weekly}}</ref><ref name="Paumgartner">{{cite magazine|last=Paumgartner|first=Nick|date=8 November 2010|title=Brilliant mistakes|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/11/08/brilliant-mistakes|magazine=New Yorker|access-date=28 June 2018}}</ref><ref name="Lingan-2012">{{Cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/08/elvis_costello_memoir_autobiography_in_rhino_reissue_booklets_.html|title=Everyday I Hide the Book|last=Lingan|first=John|date=3 August 2012|website=Slate|access-date=11 June 2018}}</ref> In 2012, ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'' magazine published a book review of the Rhino liner notes in which it called them "one of the best rock-star memoirs of the last decade".<ref name="Lingan-2012" />

In 2015, Costello published ''Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink'', a memoir that had little overlap with his reissue liner notes.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Elvis-Costello-is-everywhere-in-new-memoir-6577571.php|title=Elvis Costello is everywhere in new memoir|last=Vaziri|first=Aidin|date=19 October 2015|work=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=12 June 2018}}</ref> In this book, Costello recounted his life in music and traced parallels between his own experiences and those of his father and grandfather, both of whom were musicians.<ref name="Bonomo-2014">{{Cite news|last=Bonomo|first=Joe|date=11 October 2014|title=Pop Music, Not Confession|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/pop-music-not-confession|newspaper=Los Angeles Review of Books|access-date=28 June 2018}}</ref> The book received enthusiastic positive reviews from prominent publications. The [[The New York Times|''New York Times'']] said that it contained "some of the best writing – funny, strange, spiteful, anguished – we've ever had from an important musician".<ref name="Garner-2015">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/books/review-elvis-costellos-unfaithful-music-disappearing-ink-a-memoir.html|title=Review: Elvis Costello's 'Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink,' a Memoir|last=Garner|first=Dwight|date=9 October 2015|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=12 June 2018}}</ref> The [[The Washington Post|''Washington Post'']] praised it as having more in common with [[Frank McCourt]]'s memoir ''[[Angela's Ashes]]'' than [[Mötley Crüe]]'s [[The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band|''The Dirt'']] and said it was more enjoyable than [[Keith Richards]]' [[Life (Keith Richards)|''Life'']] and [[Bob Dylan]]'s ''[[Chronicles: Volume One]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/a-memoir-by-the-british-elvis/2015/10/06/18bee370-6b69-11e5-9bfe-e59f5e244f92_story.html|title=Elvis Costello has a new memoir, and it's even better than Bob Dylan and Keith Richards's books|last=Edgers|first=Geoff|date=6 October 2015|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=12 June 2018}}</ref> However, some positive reviews noted that the quality of the writing in the book was uneven and that the book might have been improved by being shorter, more focused thematically, or both.<ref name="Garner-2015" /><ref name="Bonomo-2014" /> The few negative reviews the book received criticised its nonlinear structure, its relative lack of emphasis on Costello's pop-star period, and its lack of details about his romantic relationships.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Lewis|first=Andy|date=24 October 2015|title=Elvis Costello's 'Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink' Is Too Clever for Its Own Good: Book Review|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/review/6730919/elvis-costello-unfaithful-music-and-disappearing-ink-book-review|magazine=Billboard|access-date=28 June 2018}}</ref> The book reached number 7 on the [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' Best Seller list]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2015/11/08/hardcover-nonfiction/|title=Hardcover nonfiction|date=8 November 2018|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=12 June 2018}}</ref> It was shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize, a British award for excellence in writing about music.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/costello-and-smith-shortlisted-penderyn-music-prize-324733|title=Costello and Smith shortlisted for Penderyn Music Prize|last=Onwuemezi|first=Natasha|date=16 March 2016|website=The Bookseller|access-date=12 June 2018}}</ref> The [[audiobook]], narrated by Costello, was nominated for a Grammy Award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/elvis-costello|title=Elvis Costello|website=Grammy Awards|access-date=12 June 2018}}</ref>