Fiction Writers Review made Gravesend their Book of the Week pick. Follow them on Twitter (@fictionwriters) for a chance to win a copy.
And my review of Sara Gran’s Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway is up at Los Angeles Review of Books.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
It Belongs to the Neighborhood
My buddy Alex Shakespeare interviewed me for Fiction Writers Review.
And a reminder: The great cover art for Gravesend, which I’ve posted a few times already, is by Matthew Revert – He also a new book out, Basal Ganglia, and it’s damn beautiful.
Gravesend Follies
Hey! I’m doing a once-a-week comic for Lent Mag. It’s called Gravesend Follies. The first one posted a couple of days ago:
They’ll be up on Monday mornings, and no one will ever look at them.
Feathers Out
The third Water Liars LP will be out on 2/4/14. It’s a lightning bolt, a fight with blood, a roaring prayer.
(PS: The second paragraph of the press release is an excerpt from a bio I wrote for the band.)
Noir at the Bar
I’m excited to be reading at my first Noir at the Bar in St. Louis on December 7th with Scott Phillips, Jed Ayres, J. David Osborne, Jake Hinkson, and Ande Parks.
Playlist #1
Been spinning a lot of Lou Reed this week, of course. Nothing more than this, one of my favorite performances of his:
It’s been a while since I listened to Patty Griffin, but I’ve liked her since 2004 or so, when a friend back in New Paltz introduced me to 1,000 Kisses. This song, which I saw Mary Lou Lord post about on Facebook a couple of days ago, is incredible. It’s on the album Silver Bell, which was just released after sitting on a shelf for thirteen years. She recorded another version of it a while ago and I guess The Dixie Chicks covered it at some point, but it’s new to me and it’s fucking killer. I’ve listened to it at least a hundred times in the last forty-eight hours.
I’ve gotten a good amount of writing done this week and Chris Forsyth’s Solar Motel has been my soundtrack. This Aquarium Drunkard piece gets at why it’s so damn good. I think this one will be in constant rotation, especially when I’m working.
Other good stuff I’ve been listening to: Irma Thomas’s In Between Tears, Dead Gaze’s Brain Holiday, The Gunshy’s Silent Songs, and Who Is William Onyeabor?
And here’s one of my favorite songs from 2012 (from my favorite album of 2012) that I just keep going back to:
William Boyle 