What’s in a Name?
Last time around we unveiled the basic outline of the new Tim Green story coming this September. This time we ask, with apologies to Mr. Shakespeare and his roses, “What’s in a
Tim Green Will Return: The Sequel
Four and a half years ago I published a post titled “Tim Green Will Return,” and hints have been dropping ever since about a sequel to Believe in Me. While it took substantiall
Mud Season
When I started my current job nearly a decade ago (wait… what?), the school I work for in Central California had just become affiliated with a larger school back in northern New
Favorite Reads of 2016
As the stack of books-to-be-read grows tall once again, swollen by holiday gifting, it’s time to look back and remember some of my favorite reads of 2016… We begin with a cavea
Revenge of NaNoWriMo
“National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to creative writing,” declares the NaNoWriMo website—a backhanded, tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement that yo
Shut Up and Sing
After 20-plus years of writing about music, there’s one aspect of the scene that continues to utterly baffle me, particularly right about now, late in an election cycle. You see
The Hug
[We’ve already talked about why, for a creative person, travel equals fuel. This post and the previous one offer hard evidence, drawn from a recent trip to central Europe.] I
John Lennon and the Velvet Revolution
[We’ve already talked about why, for a creative person, travel equals fuel. The next couple of posts offer hard evidence of this, drawn from a recent trip to central Europe.]
The Map
One of the interesting parts of the post-release stage of publishing a book is figuring out all over again how to talk about it. Not in press releases or web text or newsletters or
My Heart Sings the Harmony
Twenty years in the making, and now it’s here. My Heart Sings the Harmony: Twenty Years of Writing About Music collects more than 100 album reviews, artist interviews, and essays