http://blog.thatsummertimesound.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:02:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A funny thing about working on this second book: it comes much more easily than did the first. Of course, That Summertime Sound wasn't the first (the two before it live in my virtual filing cabinet), but my expectation was to find writing American Dream Machine much harder. ... http://blog.thatsummertimesound.com/?p=84 Re/reading James Baldwin's Another Country, which is enough to make one's hair stand on end. Throughout, one encounters passages like this one: He stared into the streets and thought--bitterly, but also with a chilling, stunned sobriety--that he had been seeing them for so long, perhaps he had never known them ... http://blog.thatsummertimesound.com/?p=82 I get asked a lot what I was listening to while I wrote That Summertime Sound. Usually my mind goes slack and I just want to say…Everything. I’ve done various playlists for various blogs, but in the interest of being a little more encyclopedic, whipped up this still-incomplete ... http://blog.thatsummertimesound.com/?p=78 ...love the various homages (Count Five!) in this video, too. http://blog.thatsummertimesound.com/?p=74 Some people ask, sensibly enough, what the readings (or rather, the readers) on this site have to do with the book itself. The answer, on the most literal level, is: Nothing. The book does not star James Franco, or any of the other contributors. At the same ... http://blog.thatsummertimesound.com/?p=72 Also, this Sunday, reading with Maile Meloy at Conrad Romo's stellar Tongue-in-Groove. Really looking forward to this one. Details: Sunday Sept 27th 6-7:30 pm The Hotel Cafe 1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd. Hollywood, Ca 90028 $6.00 http://blog.thatsummertimesound.com/?p=71 Was wondering today, a little sophomorically I guess, whether these aren't the three engines of literature. Or maybe just wishing I could find a different place to write from. (Then again, how many great novels about happiness can you name? My friend Maud Casey would suggest Paul ... http://blog.thatsummertimesound.com/?p=70 Here, for example, an image whose meaning might be descried by only one person. Whose Eggy Noggin is, in fact, a little firmer than this. I won't make a habit of posting such in-jokes, but as a way to test drive this blog's occasionally hiccupy display of images, ... http://blog.thatsummertimesound.com/?p=62 Reading this evening at Book Soup, 7 PM. I'm definitely looking forward to it, even though there can be a certain karaoke aspect to readings. I prefer events that are more conversational in spirit, where the conclusions aren't already foregone. The same way I am about writing, ... http://blog.thatsummertimesound.com/?p=59 "Baseball is just baseball." Which is mostly true. http://blog.thatsummertimesound.com/?p=53