Books
Record year
By the end of every year, I end up with a stack of new books about music so tall I end up needing more...
Confessions of an ex-evangelical
Erika Rae’s evangelist upbringing imprinted some unusual beliefs upon her. As a teenager, she believed demons were behind every accidental misstep, from rock ’n’ roll to forgetting your keys. In her memoir about how she ended up leaving behind her radical religion, ...
Of adverbs and experimentation
Of course I liked Secrets & Lies, a collection of short fiction written by Josh Gross. I like Josh Gross. We dated in college, hated each other until I was in graduate school, and then became friends. And there’s enough of him in those pages for it to feel, after ...
No chasm to cross
If we’re to trust Thurston Moore, “Rock stars can’t be poets, which sucks.”
The line is from a poem by Moore titled “By The Lightswitch.”...
