Contributor News: Harry Kollatz, Jr., publishes a novel.
Harry Kollatz, Jr., who wrote about our former office’s very own block of Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia, has now published his first novel: Carlisle Montgomery. Carlisle is “six-foot-five, redheaded, pigtailed, gap-and-buck-toothed, nine-fingered, guitar-playing,” and thoroughly beguiling as she launches a musical career in the 1990s, somewhere between grunge and Garth Brooks. She is brought to...
From Our Pages: “Kipaw-paw-pish!” – The Art of Beatboxing, by Charlotte Simmonds.
Our bud Toki is a beat-boxer. Beat-boxing is when you make the noise of a drum machine with your mouth and voice. Toki is the national beat-boxing champion. This means he is better at beat-boxing than everyone else in New Zealand. Maybe there are people who are better than he is and are too shy...
The Tune of True Stories
True stories come in all forms. From Elizabethan murder ballads to rap songs, music has been a font of stories drawn from real life. But how much does truth really matter when it comes to songs? First, there’s the question of narrative itself. For example, Nick Cave, front man for Australian alternative-rock band the Bad Seeds, has moved...
Michael Hearst’s ‘Unusual Creatures’ Wins a Telly
Michael Hearst‘s “Unusual Creatures” project for PBS Digital Studios has received a Telly Award for excellence in online feature production! In November, we wrote about the project, which involves pairing sound, text, and video with various abnormal animals. Most of Hearst’s work involves marrying visual art and music. Hearst is the founding member of the...
