I told him, “Well, you can’t sing, but it’s the WAY you can’t sing that’s good. It has a sort of dark, sleazy feel to it. … a combination of Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits.” ― Gaff Music label head Scott Beal on novelist Madison Smartt Bell (pictured above, with Don Dixon) I find that during Lockdown, I more often want …
Steve’s Blog: Stuck at Home? Read Books – and Buy Them
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. ― Dr. Seuss Was there ever a better time to go on a book-reading binge? We’re all spending more time at home out of circulation, self-quarantined or otherwise, and we’re all at risk of having the steady stream of …
Steve’s Blog: Book-Deadline Exhaustion
There is a reason we forget. And those of us who remember, well, it is hard on us. It exhausts us. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer I recently came up for air after a grueling two-month book-deadline push, the kind of sleep-deprivation experiment that leaves you utterly spent, and it reminded me of how much exhaustion is a theme …