By way of a ‘CV,’ a few recent clips, and a few old favorites (of mine, that is).
(More useful than this page is the reverse-chronological order listing of All my “Published Work” posts on this blog.)
Making the Connections is a book of stories about grassroots projects that arose from the Pittsburgh 250 celebrations in 2008 – I authored MTC as the culmination of a year-long series of newsletters and blogs about the ongoing initiatives. You can read all about it at The Sprout Fund’s Community Connections site, and you can even order a copy of the book on Sprout’s Making the Connections page.
So far in 2009, it’s been a strange voyage into the politics of the real underground: This story about the role of music and musicians in the 1984-85 coal miner’s strike in the UK, for Paste magazine, was something I’d wanted to do for a long, long, time; this one, for the Poetry Foundation’s online magazine, about poet Mark Nowak and his book-length research-based poem about the Sago mine disaster, was a true learning experience.
I still do the occasional music piece, like this piece on recent Afrobeat releases from July’s XLR8R, and this review of Hot Chip’s latest, from February’s issue. Or a piece in the September issue of Paste Magazine about Daptone Records’ new foray into Gospel. (Not yet online, but hey, what’cha gonna do?)
These days, however, I tend more towards the art world – like a cover package of pieces about Life On Mars: the Carnegie International, for Carnegie Magazine, which includes a feature on the show, a series of interviews with artists participating in the International (Douglas Aitken, Susan Philipsz, Barry McGee), and a feature on early-20th-century artwork acquired through the first Internationals. (Plus one in the last issue, about http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/feature.php?id=101#mce_temp_url#.)
