In which God shows the many forms of his fury. ‘God kicking down doors on His way across the sky, grey
voluminous beard billowing.’ Continue Reading God
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“Scott had never stayed in a suite before…” Today’s #TuesdayTales piece is “The Hesitant” by David Micklem. Continue Reading The Hesitant
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In the provincial town of Udon Thani, in Northern Thailand, in the middle of a brain-meltingly hot day, my partner and I find a terrace and sit down to have ...
A widow is haunted by the past Continue Reading LIKE A MARRIAGE
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Jan Swafford’s Johannes Brahms: A Biography reviewed Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: JOHANNES BRAHMS
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This week on Litro Lab podcast, we have an experimental piece with original music. On a time when many of us are stranded in one place – do you ever ...
This week on Litro Lab, we access the anxious thoughts of a man while he walks through a rainy city. This is an experimental piece that blends music and words. ...
This week on Litro Lab, we invite you to close your eyes and immerse yourself in this oneiric flash fiction piece that tells the story of a little boy and ...
There was an edge to it, a whiff of violence and unhinged possibility. In those days, the style of Leftist street protest was carnivalesque Continue Reading A ...
All this misjudged levity is really an attempt to sublimate the subject matter of the record that inspired this collection: depression. Continue Reading Book Review: We Were Strangers, ...
Focusing particularly on the words of Paul McCartney and John Lennnon, Frank Meola’s essay “Reading Words, Hearing Music” is about song lyrics and poetry and the difference between the two. ...
Joanna Pocock speaks to iconic US composer and polymath Phillip Corner as he plays at Hackney’s Café Oto. Continue Reading Pieces of Reality: Philip Corner at Café Oto ...
My second novel, Melissa (Salt, late 2015), is – like a lot of my writing – all about music and neurology. Continue Reading On Neurology and Grief: ...
Melbourne writer Venita Munir interviews Calexico co-founder and drummer John Convertino. Continue Reading Conjuring a Sense of Place: Interview with Calexico’s John Convertino
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I dropped the needle of the old vinyl edition of This Is The Sea somewhere towards the end of side two. Continue Reading This Is the Sea
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‘(There is) ultimately only one conflict which constantly reappears under a different guise … to reconcile life with work in the purest sense.’ Continue Reading IDENTITY, MUSIC AND ...
Dr. James Holden considers the irresistable pull of Christmas’s sleigh bell-punctuated nostalgia. Continue Reading On Nostalgia: The Music of Christmas Past and Present
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A fascinating series of essays bringing together singers, songwriters, bands, performers, A&R men, producers and audiences into the whirling gumbo of rock ‘n’ roll. Continue Reading Book Review: ...
A look back at how Boris Vian makes words dance in this jazz age classic. Continue Reading Books in Review: Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian
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“The first ‘song’ I ever wrote was ‘Baby.’ Inverted commas because a) everyone else does, the fools, and b) it’s got a verse, a chorus, and a second verse and ...