In our morning reading: thoughts on L’Rain’s new album, Miles Klee revisits Orson Welles, and more.
Morning Bites: L’Rain’s Latest, Seb Doubinsky’s Playlist, Miles Klee on Orson Welles, and More
Afternoon Bites: Remembering John Crowley, Alexander Chee on New England, Paul Auster Comics, and More
In our afternoon reading: remembrances of John Crowley, an interview with Alexander Chee, and more.
Voices of Ancient Drums
For Neeram Pularumbol (As the Dawn Breaks), my follow-up record to the 2021 release on OnTheCorner Records (When the Waters Refused Our History), I wanted to do a deep dive into Indian percussion instruments that have strong links to communal rituals that are played in various sized drum-ensembles.
Morning Bites: Scott McClanahan Interviewed, Books Meet Pizza, Judging Literary Prizes, and More
In our morning reading: an interview with Scott McClanahan, where books and pizza converge, and more.
Sunday Stories: “Good Boy”
Good Boy
by Charles Holdefer
I don’t always listen to my dog because he can be a whiner but last night we were talking about the possibilities of afterlife and accounts of near-death experiences where someone travels down a tunnel toward a bright light which opens onto joy and sometimes a reunification with lost loved ones.
Weekend Bites: Revisiting Muriel Rukeyser, Tom McCarthy’s Latest, Book Covers Considered, and More
In our weekend reading: revisiting the prose of Muriel Rukeyser, poetry by Chloe N. Clark, and more.
Fact, Fiction, and “Fights!”: On Scott McClanahan’s New Book
I’ve been reading Scott McClanahan’s work for a long time — long enough to know that Fights!, his new novel, is not his first book with an exclamation mark in the title. (That would be Stories V!.) But there’s also something about Fights! that made reading it substantially different from the experience of reading McClanahan’s other work. And maybe that’s why I’m writing this, which is less of a review and more a case of me figuring things out using […]
Morning Bites: Naomi Falk on Books, Revisiting Rachel Pollack, Polly Barton’s Latest, and More
In our morning reading: an interview with Naomi Falk, thoughts on books by Polly Barton and Morris Collins, and more.