Following an earlier post about self-publishing, I’d now like to direct your attention to the news that John Edgar Wideman* has opted to release his next book, a collection titled Briefs, via Lulu. Consider me curious as to how it works out. I’m...

Not long ago, I waxed ecstatic on the subject of Justin Taylor. In that spirit, I’d like to draw your attention to two more interviews with that selfsame author: Edward Champion’s, as the 323rd installment of the Bat Segundo Show, and Justin Taylor’s,...

At Dusted, I have a review up of Via Audio’s Animalore, an album about which I had mixed feelings. …while the band and producer Jim Eno (of Spoon) seem to have savored the opportunity to use the studio, the most straightforwardly played songs on...

Last week, I reviewed Justin Taylor’s Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever for Vol. 1: Halfway through “Estrellas y Rascacielos,” the third story in Justin Taylor’s collection Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever, there’s an exchange...

Recently, I’ve been doing more of my music-buying on vinyl. Most of the music I buy comes from indie labels, and most of the larger (and even not so large) indies have implemented the vinyl-with-download-code format, of which I’m a fan. Some of this...