Pardon Our Dust
Please pardon our dust as we undergo some construction here at Slushpile.net. As you’ve undoubtedly noticed, we’ve installed a new theme and will be working out the kinks in the coming days. But we have some cool interviews coming up so be sure to check back regularly. Thanks for reading!
continue readingLarry Brown Bio Reviewed in WSJ
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Carl Rollyson examines Larry Brown: A Writer’s Life by Jean W. Cash. The late, great Southern literary icon’s strengths and weaknesses as a writer and a man are described in this book. I’ll have my own comments on Larry Brown: A Writer’s Life shortly. But in the meantime, it’s simply…
continue readingIt’s All a Hard Dollar
Since we’ve been discussing music-related books, I thought I might mention a cool new album that’s been in heavy rotation during my writing periods lately. Hadden Sayers is a Texas-born bluesman currently residing in the Midwest. Armed with a battered but cherished ’57 Stratocaster, he performs with his own band as well as backing up…
continue readingGood Hard Rock Books
In recent days, we examined the trend towards everyone with a Marshall amp stack releasing a book of some form. And, unfortunately, many of those books haven’t been very fulfilling. So I wanted to close the discussion by mentioning some hard rock and heavy metal books that are interesting and different and worth a read.…
continue readingAdd Stephen Pearcy to the List
According to Blabbermouth.net, we can add Ratt vocalist Stephen Pearcy to the list of hard rock and heavy metal memoirs. The article states that Pearcy’s management is “entertaining publishers” for Pearcy’s book. The singer says that he is “working on a few rough chapters as we speak!” Ratt drummer Bobby Blotzer released Tales of a…
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