OA Music Issue On Newsstands
Be sure to pick up the Oxford American‘s Eighth Annual Music Issue. As usual, the magazine is accompanied by a CD chock full of great music. The writerly line-up for this issue is stellar as well. Peter Guralnick, Tom Piazza, William Gay, Jack Pendarvis, Ron Rash, Beth Ann Fennelly, and Amanda Petrusich all appear in…
continue readingInterview: T.R. Pearson, Author
Old friends have a quality to their voice that immediately warms your soul upon hearing it. You can go years without speaking to that person and then one day the phone rings, you say hello, and with one word that voice negates the passage of time and unleases a flood of memories. A rare few writers have…
continue readingReading Like a Writer on the Bestseller List
I’ve mentioned Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them before. And today, the book caught my attention because it’s number twenty on the New York Times Hardover Nonfiction bestseller list. In the last year, I’ve had conversations with about ten agents who all claimed that books about…
continue readingPiling Up More Stuff
A little self-promotion here… I’ve got some new work in the October 2006 issue of Stuff magazine. It’s uncredited work, but hey, you gotta start somewhere I reckon. And the guys are great to work with. So if you’re on the lookout for some new gear, or just like the ladies of Lost be sure…
continue readingOnly Revolutions Released
I walked into my local bookstore yesterday and the very first thing I see is a stand-alone display of Mark Z. Danielewski’s work. The display contains both his bestselling House of Leaves and his new novel, Only Revolutions. The sight of this display, in and of itself, was exciting. It’s nice to see a literary writer,…
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