Ace’s Authorial Wardrobe
That Metal Show on VH1 Classic is required viewing around my house. Hosted by Eddie Trunk along with Don Jamieson and Jim Florentine, the show focuses on classic hard rock and heavy metal. It has also become a prime outlet for musicians to discuss their books. For example, drummer Carmine Appice recently discussed writing his…
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Round Up of Hard Rock Books
[Editor’s Note: The round up in this post was updated on October 17, 2023] Yesterday, we discussed the deluge of books related to hard rock and heavy metal. Whereas the prevailing attitude used to be that rockers don’t read, it now appears that anyone with a Marshall amp stack can get a book deal. And…
continue readingThe Onslaught of Heavy Metal Books
In 2001, in his debut book Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota Chuck Klosterman wrote “I mean, nobody literate cares about metal, right?” Obviously, Klosterman himself didn’t think that metal was unworthy of literary examination and he plowed ahead with the book that set the foundation for his successful career.…
continue readingNSSM: “The Birds for Christmas”
In honor of National Short Story Month, I’m thinking about Mark Richard’s “The Birds for Christmas.” I recently finished Richard’s new memoir House of Prayer No 2 and some of the scenes in there are clearly familiar to anyone who had read “The Birds.” My first experience with this great short story came from Mark…
continue readingNational Short Story Month Launches
I’ve been in full-time nonfiction mode recently. So what little reading I’ve been able to do has been of the factual variety. But I’ve been longing to dive back into made up worlds. And National Short Story Month provides the perfect excuse to revisit some old favorites and to hopefully discover some new voices that…
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