Guest Essays

Blood on the Wall

Sinéad O’Connor: 'Jump in the River' + Moms + Silence + Screaming

Jul 16 •

This Is Life Being Lived

Aaron Lake Smith on The Manic Street Preachers' ‘Motorcycle Emptiness’ + Time Doing Its Work

Apr 16

Syrup, Sophistication, And Grit

Daniel Hornsby on Prefab Sprout's 'Bonny' + Aux Cord Revelations + Outgrowing Millenial Americana

Mar 10

Life's Thumbs In Our Wet Clay

Paul Lisicky on Joni Mitchell's 'Amelia' + Sticky Confusion + Touching Darkness and Living

Mar 5

Once Again Falling Apart

Jackson Frank: 'Blues Run The Game' + Burning Out + Riding The Train + Sewing a Wide, Scratchy Quilt

Feb 18 •

Even Though I Wasn't Watching Twin Peaks, I Was Basically Living There

Julee Cruise: 'Falling' + Bucktown, Pennsylvania + Swiping tapes + Glimpses of Lynch

Jan 30 •

I Didn't Know What To Say

Sharon Van Etten: ‘Seventeen’ + Baby Stuff (aka No-Baby Stuff) + Appointment After Appointment + Rocking Out (In The Car, Alone)

Dec 26, 2024 •

If'n You Don't Know By Now

Bob Dylan: 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right' + Breakups + Old friends + Jewish grandmas

Dec 18, 2024 •

Somewhere Inside I Wanted To Smile Again

The Beatles: 'Dear Prudence' + Silence, secrets, and lies + The desire to shrink + The desire to live

Oct 29, 2024

Getting At The Shape Of Loneliness

Neil Young: 'Hey Hey, My My' + Going nowhere + Becoming something

Oct 22, 2024 •

Conjured and Dismissed

Fiction (!) from Garth Greenwell. John Taverner: 'Westron Wynde Mass' + Staff/patient bonding in hospital + That sense only non-sense can convey

Oct 15, 2024

Time Travel Is Painful

Oasis: 'Wonderwall' + Cairo to Hull (and back again) + Pangalactic Gargleblasters (on ice)

Oct 8, 2024

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