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Sleeves of Desire
The seasons have changed And the light And the weather And the hour. But it is the same land. And I begin to know the map And to get my bearings. –Dag Hammarskjøld I once had a wooden train set. Its...
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A Digital Workflow for Classical Music and Opera: eBook review
“In the digital world, portability is everything,” writes David Wank in the introduction to his latest eBook, A Digital Workflow for Classical Music and Opera. I’ve been following David’s informative...
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Book review: Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin by Patrick Donnelly
Patrick Donnelly Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin Tribeca: Four Way Books, 2012 Nine years after the publication of The Charge (Ausable Press), Massachusetts-based poet and teacher Patrick Donnelly...
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Paul Griffiths: let me tell you
Paul Griffiths let me tell you Hastings, East Sussex: Reality Street Editions, 2008 She is like the rest of us; we all have no more than the words that come to us in the play. We go on with these...
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Book Review: Music to Silence to Music – A Biography of Henry Grimes
In his foreword to Music to Silence to Music: A Biography of Henry Grimes, Sonny Rollins recalls his first encounter with the young bassist in Philadelphia: “He seemed to hear and immediately...
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Fred Strydom: The Raft (Book Review)
To a growing list of South African science/speculative fictionists (think Lauren Beukes and Sarah Lotz), one must add Fred Strydom, his novel The Raft being one of the most unnerving dystopian tales...
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Patricia Ward: Skinner Luce (Book Review)
Distinguishing autobiographical bleed-through on any author’s fictional canvas can be a tricky business. In the case of Patricia Ward, it’s impossible to ignore. Her first novel, The Bullet...
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China Miéville: This Census-Taker (Book Review)
China Miéville may be a pioneer among writers of the New Weird, but his latest, This Census-Taker, recasts the genre as more of the Old Familiar. Miéville’s oddities, intricate as they are, would be...
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Charlie Jane Anders: All the Birds in the Sky (Book Review)
In her 2016 novel, All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders explores relationships between humans, nature, and machines, along with the allegiances and deceptions dotting their radar screens....
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Stephen D. Miller: The Wind from Vulture Peak (Book Review)
In his 2013 monograph, The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period, Stephen D. Miller takes readers on a cordial walk through a transition in Japan’s...
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Colin Dayan: With Dogs at the Edge of Life (Book Review)
Colin Dayan does a rare thing at the crossroads of humanism and animalism by treating each as a reflection of the other. She engages the malleability of either tropism, stepping over the stalemated...
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The Broken Hours by Jacqueline Baker (Book Review)
The Broken Hours is an ode to a specific time (1936), place (Providence, Rhode Island), and above all the famous writer (H. P. Lovecraft) who finished out his short life then and there. But while...
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Recognition of Mr. Turtle
As some of you may know, I am a professional translator of Japanese fiction into English (a new translation project has, in fact, kept me from reviewing as of late…but stay tuned). My latest...
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Interview
An interview with yours truly on the not-so-gentle art of translation. Click the cover of my latest to read on.
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Special Announcement
I am humbled and pleased to announce that my book on ECM is finally coming out this week. Between Sound and Space: An ECM Records Primer is to be published by Rey+Naranjo in a first edition available...
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Printed Memories…
On 10 February 2010, I began this blog with the goal of reviewing every album issued by ECM Records proper and its New Series imprint. Four years ago, I achieved said goal. Within hours of announcing...
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ECM Book Giveaway Contest
Because it will be some time before my book goes international (it is currently only available in South America), I have decided to hold a giveaway contest for you, my dedicated readers. To be...
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After feeding the names through CommentPicker.com, I’ve randomly chosen three winners: Hamish Daniel Diaz Uros Spasojevic Please send me your contact information, and I will send your books out right...
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Adventures in Editing
In addition to my love of writing, I am a longtime editor and wanted to share a project in which I was honored to be involved as copyeditor of Elliott Sharp’s autobiographical and philosophically rich...
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