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There has been some good writing about the band:
I actually like Alec Foege's book, but it obviously needs updating.
I also liked the section on SY in Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could be Your Life, if only because it wasn't written from a fan's perspective, and I sort of enjoyed its overtly hostile tone.
What about the alternatives though? Of those that might be feasible:
I'd say Simon Reynolds might've done a good job a few years ago, but now he seems so against everything SY might represent that it'd just turn into some anti-rock manifesto.
Greil Marcus would surely say something interesting, but it would read more as a 'my thoughts on...' kind of thing.
Everett True's book would have been ok, but he's got major self-promotion issues so it would've probably ended up more like an autobiography.
Bryan Coley: too rockist, maybe.
Thinking about it, perhaps there simply isn't a writer CAPABLE of telling the band's entire story. A single album maybe, but not the whole saga.
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