Algonquin’s marketing director assigns REM song titles to future books.

Anderson wishes his coming out had involved more dancing in sexy overalls.

This is the story of how Cherry got drunk at the Abbey bar and fell in love with the Soul Queen of New Orleans.

Matt Salyer sings a lullaby.

Tim Anderson takes a no-holds-barred (well, ok, one-hold-barred) look at PJ Harvey’s song “You Said Something.”

Rebecca Schiffman is haunted by her brief shoplifting habit of fifteen years earlier.

As I am about to put an end to an 8-year procrastination on recording my second album, I have gathered some thoughts from that stretch of time, that I would like to share. I write songs; Folk/Pop(ular) songs (I’ll call them folk songs) as opposed to classical (formal) music, to make a simple differentiation which [...]