new work @verbena (10/3, 7pm)

Dear Everyone,

Many of you know that I’ve been working on a big prose project over the past two years, a wild narrative of process that became an epistolary memoir that is now a novel. It will likely transform yet again.

Nonetheless, on Thursday, Oct 3 (7pm, at Verbena Vinyl in Northfield), for the first time in public, I’ll be trying something that brings my writing together with recorded music and sound.

I’ll read a short nonfiction story called “Una Corda,” about my relationship to the piano, to music more broadly, and to the ways those relationships animate various family legends and legacies, patterns and loops. I’ve made a long audio track to accompany this, built out of the music that this story obsesses over: Mozart, Bartók, Respighi, things of mine, and a way to electronically process all of them so that they eventually blur into texture and space.

Come! Do let me know if you are considering it (RSVP), because I need to rent/borrow/transport the right number of folding chairs. Thus far it has been a journey.

And, if you’ve not yet been to Verbena Vinyl, this is a good excuse to check out a great downtown business, record store, community gathering place, and all-around most excellent establishment full of most excellent people.

I’ll be doing this again in Brooklyn on 11/21 at Sō Labs. Tell your NY-adjacent pals if you have NY-adjacent pals! Or tell yourself if you are one of my NY-adjacent pals. And also tell yourself something nice.

Til soon, I hope—

A