Category: music
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// cover reveal
I’m elated to share this cover with you: I’ve heard horror stories about covers, but so far I’m three for three. The photograph is by the mega-talented Brian Adams of Alaska, and I love what Penguin did with the design, which resonates with the poems on multiple levels. Here’s a recent interview with Adams. And…
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// tortured genius
People often said that he finished sentences for me. Well, he did. He was between me and the world. He not only answered the telephone; he finished my sentences. He was the baffle between me and the world at large. —Joan Didion, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold ICYMI, my latest film conversation…
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// robots for the end of the world
Today in Berfrois: New adventures in subverting expository form—the fifth installment in my occasional conversational essay series with Gregory Giles is up. Throwback to everyone’s favorite ’90s environmental cartoon (?), FernGully. Improbably Sentimental Robots; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Babies and Embrace the Apocalypse Also, lucky you if you’ll be in the…
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// reading & records
I’m reading on Friday 6/3 in San Francisco, and 20 Minute Loop is putting out a new LP.
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// playlist
sped was officially born today! Cue the celebratory music. One day I’d like to write more about the why—or at least the how come—of these songs. For now, with school in session and a birthday to celebrate, I’ll start with this playlist from the book, mostly from the last section, “Programs for Exceptional.” Tune in…
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// t.g.s.
// the geographic solution I believe them when they say In a beautiful place out in the country —“Forever No Lo,” first section of sped My mother says my dad’s dad believed in the geographic solution to unhappiness. My grandfather was career military, and as soon as he felt a twinge of…
Teresa K. Miller, poet and essayist 