Getting the Mix Just Right
I grew up with the name Tom Werman. I don’t recall if I saw it first on a Dokken cassette or maybe it was Motley Crue, but the prolific producer was as real to the ten-year-old me as any of the musicians on those tracks. So I was excited to read his new memoir Turn…
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The Big, Untameable Ideas of Bigfoot
I’ve lost track of the times people have made fun of me for believing in Bigfoot. It’s a bit of mystery, a bit of childhood, along with some danger tossed in, combined with vague memories of the drive-in, and a love of the theme song from the seventies television show In Search Of. I’m a…
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Read the New Klosterman, But Can Remember Nothing
Our reading tastes change as we age. Our writing styles change as we age. Two very ridiculously obvious statements that are hardly groundbreaking. But I kept thinking about those concepts as I read Chuck Klosterman’s The Nineties: A Book. One or two of those simple statements were clearly at work, because yeah, I read it.…
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New Novels from Cormac McCarthy
The New York Times seemed to break the news late this afternoon that Alfred A. Knopf will publish two new novels from the legendary Cormac McCarthy. A book entitled The Passenger will be released first this fall, followed by Stella Maris a month later.
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Writer Raises a Shit Ton of Money on Kickstarter
Wow. The New York Times reports that science fiction and fantasy author Brandon Sanderson raised $15.4 million in 24 hours on Kickstarter. And the donations kept coming in. Fuck me, I don’t even know how to comment on this. Just read the article.
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