Comments on: Brutal

By: sfmike

sfmike — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:08:48 +0000

I met, and sometimes slept, with more Alaskans in Hawaii than anywhere else in the world. I believe every Alaskan citizen is given a travel subsidy, though this may be apocryphal, and of course they go to balmy Hawaii, another strange outlier in the American Empire.

The only time my eyes have truly widened with possible WanderLust Wonder at a public schedule was at Mussolini’s beautiful marble train station in Milan where you can seemingly take a train to Anywhere. This Way to Budapest, young man.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:16:31 +0000

The paragraph about breakfast slayed me. There IS something like a straitjacket when your host asks you what you want. And I hope you’re serious about the bowl of noodles cause no joke, that’s the best! Thanks always for writing!

By: killian

killian — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:15:03 +0000

sigh. will get my hands on Homes immediately. your writing is sublime. like your music. thank you.

By: Boy is she

Boy is she — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:17:52 +0000

Oh yes!

By: michael

michael — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:57:31 +0000

Speaking of “brutal,” I was wondering if there is ever going to be a chance to download/purchase the soundtrack you composed for that wonderful film, “Margaret.” The same goes for the pieces composed with Misters Stevens and Dessner, and for really any of the many compositions you write about on this website.

By: frank

frank — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:02:11 +0000

Re: the John Stevens Shop: To the “oldest continuously-run business…”.etc. claim should be added, I think, “…in the same building..”
Devotees might enjoy examples of the work of the John Stevens Shop at their elegant website:
thejohnstevensshop.com;
And a final cautionary inscription from the shop wall:
“WRITERS IN STONE LEARN BREVITY