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More Shameless Self-Linking

April 27, 2012

Minnesota Monthly ran this short Q&A and an accompanying photo in which I lean against used LPs. Hazel & Wren also published a Q&A and then followed up with a review. And the Minnesota Daily did a profile.

Clarification about the book and the download

April 27, 2012

No one has complained yet, but in looking over this website and my Bandcamp page, I see that until now I haven’t made clear that the novel comes with a free download code for the album. I’ve been trying to spell this out onstage and whatnot, but it seems that […]

A few more early reviews

April 23, 2012

I was pleased to see that Jessica Henkle, in her Foreword review of Boarded Windows, focused on the book’s emotional aims, writing that it was populated by “people who need each other in undignified but vital ways, and this is what makes the book relatable—it is rife with humans desperate […]

Amsterdam Show on Wednesday

April 22, 2012

Self-Googling is its own punishment, and for at least a week I’ve been good about avoiding it. I cheat, though, since Nina Hale has a Google alert set for my name, and sometimes forwards items to me, such as this very generous article by Monica Millsap Rasmussen, written in advance […]

Have a Marijuana

April 20, 2012

I’m one of the “famous authors” weighing in groggily on books to read while high.

Vinyl

April 20, 2012

If you buy my book you get a free download of the companion album, but for folks who like palpable objects, long-playing microgroove records of Dylan Hicks Sings Bolling Greene are now available at Treehouse, the Electric Fetus, Roadrunner, and through Bandcamp. More stores to come. CDs on sale as […]

Cover concept for next album

April 13, 2012

I’m at a convenience store buying a Fresca. Title: Just the Pop.

Hold Me Now

April 13, 2012

My friend Genevieve Yue turned me on to the experimental filmmaker Michael Robinson. Among other things, he’s changed how I hear Thompson Twins. Here’s Genevieve putting things briefly into context.

Your book, I heard, made quite a ripple.

April 12, 2012

Although the official release date of my book is, or was, May 15, 2012, it seems to be trickling out in mid-April. Yesterday I was at Coffman Union mailing books to my out-of-town parents, and stopped into the University’s excellent bookstore (where I’ll be reading May 1). I happened to […]

Aborted Shrinky Thinkers Project

April 11, 2012

The plan was to do hundreds of these Shrinky Dink portraits of great figures in intellectual history, but I guess I only made these five, which I seem to have lost. The caption under Heidegger should be “Sein und Sprite.”