Another Christmas finds me in scenic New Jersey, along with family, beagles, and a pair of Krampuses hanging from the tree. My reading material: Stephen King’s 11/22/63 (shades of years ago, where I’m pretty sure Needful Things was my Christmastime reading.) Here’s hoping the holiday season finds you well.
Category Archives: Me
Me @ Volume 1- Afternoon Bites: Book art, Dusted and Fluxblog turn ten, Joyland on Greenpoint, and more
- There Is a Documentary About Linotype. We Think This Is Awesome.
- Afternoon Bites: Carl Wilson’s 2011, Emma Straub makes a mix, Justin Davidson on Philip Glass, and more
- Hillary Jordan’s “When She Woke”: A Discussion
- Afternoon Bites: Steve Erickson talks politics, Mikhail Bulgakov gets unreal, Pam Houston on mentoring, and more
December 6, 2011, Author: , Leave a comment
New Fiction at Joyland: “An Old Songwriter’s Trick”
Categories: Fiction, MeAt Joyland, I have a new short story up, titled “An Old Songwriter’s Trick.” This is how it begins: The week Owen left New York was one of sweltering humidity reaching down to enrapture us, swaddle us, leave us all reaching for insufficient comfort. We assumed Owen was alone in the task of loading a … Continue reading
November 3, 2011, Author: , Leave a comment
New (seasonally appropriate) fiction: “The Clutch”
Categories: Books, MeA few months ago, I wrote a short horror story for a night of genre-inspired works at Blue Angel Wines in Williamsburg. That story, “The Clutch,” has wound up on Vol.1, as it seemed strange not to have a story that wasn’t somewhat creepy up around Halloween. By the third morning, the air’s density had … Continue reading
Headed to New Orleans this morning to take in the engagement party of two fine people. It’ll be my first time in the city; very curious to see how the trip goes. Plans include the eating of beignet and my usual “I am in a new city; I must visit a bookstore” agenda. So hey. … Continue reading
August 15, 2011, Author: , Leave a comment
ALL HANDS ON (is an anthology I am in)
Categories: Books, MeI arrived home to find this in my mailbox. (More specifically: it was on the floor below it. My mailbox is fairly small.) The book in question is All Hands On: THE2NDHAND After 10, and it’s a collection of work from the long-running Chicago-and-Nashville-based literary broadsheet (and website). I’ve had some stories appear in both … Continue reading
I’ll be making my way to Western Pennsylvania tomorrow, boarding a bus at 6:50 in the morning, reading material in tow, bound for Pittsburgh (and elsewhere). Returning to New York come Monday night, hopefully with many a story to tell.
Apparently, I have been immortalized in an HTML Giant tag. You learn fascinating things when you periodically google yourself.
I reviewed S’s Sadstyle for Tiny Mix Tapes. This album is indeed a four-track project from the 90s, but it’s also a reminder of exactly why the home-recordings aesthetic works. These songs can feel messy at times, but that mirrors the messiness of the lives documented in them, something Ghetto’s lyrics and (especially) her vocal … Continue reading
Heading out of town for a couple of days for a foray — my first — to scenic Las Vegas, Nevada. Posting will resume once I’m back. When I was in Seattle last month, I caught a set from Javelin at the Vera Project. It wasn’t quite my thing — in the world of ramshackle … Continue reading
May 18, 2010, Author: , Leave a comment
At Dusted: My Education, Reviewed
Categories: Me, Music, ReviewUp today at Dusted: a review of My Education’s Sunrise. If you’ve read any recent think-piece about how the lines between rock bands and classical ensembles are blurring, you could pretty easily swap their name into the list of case studies provided without sacrificing accuracy. Besides recording their own compositions, they’ve also released their take … Continue reading
The dangers of having one’s digital camera around while one is writing: one may take self-portraits. And learn that, sans glasses one resembles a dude in a metal band. “Dude, we’re totally gonna end up on Hydra Head with these songs!”
Heading out of town tomorrow for a week and change in a trio of Northwestern cities: Portland, Eugene, and Seattle. While there, I’m hoping to see many fine people; take in the Stumptown Comics Fest, make some headway on my punk rock anti-romance short novel, see some live music and some soccer, and generally clear … Continue reading
At Flavorwire today, I have reviews of a quintet of recent albums that defy expectations of what a retro-inspired sound might be. Specifically: Clogs, Jack Rose, Evelyn Evelyn, The Tallest Man on Earth, and Eluvium.
For Dusted, I reviewed Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra’s Kollaps Tradixionales. Calling this Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra’s most accessible album should not be taken as an indication that we’re in pop-song territory, or even that most of these songs have a verse/chorus/verse structure. The group’s discography (and, for some of its members, … Continue reading
It’s not long after midnight on the Friday after Thanksgiving. I’m at my parents’ house in New Jersey, my onetime bedroom now occupied by a pair of sleeping beagles. I’ve spent the last two hours looking for two very random objects: a piece of sheet music and a photograph of myself circa winter 1994, in … Continue reading