Sick (2018), and Anne Boyer’s
The Undying (2019), for a few examples, all play
with form and question the utility of a linear story with a definite
conclusion. This makes Tessa Miller’s new book,
, a bit of a throwback. A memoir of being diagnosed and
living with Crohn’s disease, Miller’s book offers a didactic narrative, in
Hawkins’s taxonomy, or a questing one, in Frank’s. Hers is one of triumph, if
not restitution.
Tessa Miller really wants to help. A
tightly-wound achiever, “I’d planned for everything,” she writes in the book’s early
pages
. “I signed up for every high
It s not fun to be a gold-and-silver investor. Gold settled Friday at $1,244.10 an ounce, 50 cents higher on the day but down 3.4 percent for the week. It was gold s worst weekly loss in 10 weeks. For the month, gold is off six percent and down 25.8 percent for the year. Silver was off 7.2. Read More.
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A Southern folk troubadour, master acoustic guitarist, and award-winning composer for film, TV, and video games, it’s not often that a renaissance man like Rod Abernethy comes along. Today, Abernethy is proud to add his new full-length album Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore to his vast catalog of works. Produced by Grammy-nominated producer Neilson Hubbard (Mary Gauthier, Kim Richey, Glen Phillips), Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore is a mixture of guitar virtuosity and world-class songwriting, most of which happened on Abernethy’s last year of touring. The album has received praise from fans and critics alike, including The Wall Street Journal, who complimented his “impressive guitar-picking,” No Depression, and Americana Highways, who said, “What’s instantly likable are the voice and compositions that gel perfectly with originality turns of phrases that create clever appetizing moments. This may be
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Johannes Wallmann is a pianist and composer, recording artist on Fresh Sound New Talent Records and Shifting Paradigm Records, and the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Born 1974 in Germany, Johannes Wallmann was raised on Canada s Vancouver Island. He studied jazz piano and composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston (B.Mus., 1995) and at New York University (M.A., 1997; Ph.D., 2010), while winning numerous national music competitions and scholarships, as well as two Canada Council artist grants. After moving to New York City in 1995, he quickly established himself as a versatile and in-demand sideman in a wide-range of musical styles.