
Cari Luna talks with Tom Williams, The Raincoats get a 33 1/3, new writing on music from Norman Brannon, an interview with Lauren Cerand, Adrian Van Young on apocalypses, and more.

Cari Luna talks with Tom Williams, The Raincoats get a 33 1/3, new writing on music from Norman Brannon, an interview with Lauren Cerand, Adrian Van Young on apocalypses, and more.

This morning: praise for Helen Oyeyemi’s new novel, David Edelstein on The Grand Budapest Hotel, things you should not say to a barista, and more.
We are pleased to bring you an excerpt from Tom Williams’s new novel Don’t Start Me Talkin’, out now on Curbside Splendor. Don’t Start Me Talkin’ follows the farewell tour of Delta bluesman Brother Ben. The Chitlin’ Circuit author Preston Lauterbach called the book “a must read for fans of low down sounds everywhere,” while Matt Bell noted that “Tom Williams enters the living history of Delta Blues and emerges with his own thrilling tall tale, alive with American music, American legend, American […]