A Year in Reading: John Lingan
He described musicians as primordial forces borne from holler shacks, bereft steel towns, and Pentecostal villages, fated to carry earth-shaking messages and ultimately self-destruct.
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Everything Worthwhile Is Very Far Away: An Excerpt from the New Introduction to ‘Poor White’
Anderson knew the misery that metastasized in the commerce-centered life and wrote this grand, occasionally high-blown novel to warn people.
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The Zen of Joe Brainard: On The Collected Writings
I opened the book and found that to read Joe Brainard is to befriend him. The Collected Writings is like a manual for how to live more creatively. It bubbles over with deeply personal vision and a contagious passion for the smallest things in life — what Brainard calls “my faith that everything is interesting, sooner or later.”
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