In our morning reading: interviews with John Wray and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, delving into Tom Hanks’s novel, and more.
Afternoon Bites: John Dos Passos, Slant 6 Revisited, Steely Dan, Stickers Interviewed, and More
In our afternoon reading: celebrating John Dos Passos’s birthday, a look at a Slant 6 reissue, talking with the Seattle postpunk band Stickers, Juliet Escoria interviewed Sarah Gerard, and more.
Slack Motherfucker #2
.Dirty Work. I am, admittedly and proudly, the go-to music nerd among my friends. Whether I am glowing over Billy Joel’s foray into heavy metal in the early 1970’s via his band Attila (or Billy Joel’s entire catalog for that matter) or my collection off 60’s bubblegum pop, I have always been able to make a case for music that my peers might otherwise find annoying, silly, or just plain bad. However, I am led to believe there might be […]