If this is your first time visiting my site, I’d recommend checking out some of my most popular posts:
- On The Divine Comedy’s IN MAY
- A Year of “Wichita Lineman” Covers
- A Year of “I’m Waiting for the Man” Covers
- Talking to Phil Collins’s People
- The Smell of Wet Wood
- White Denim, The Cult of “Peg,” and My Musical Continuum
- Tom Verlaine, Live in Chicago
You can also listen to me discuss the practice of blogging on the “Blog vs. Podcast” episode of A Chatter of Fact (episode 20 via Apple Podcasts here; direct via Libsyn here).
You may also be interested in checking out my zines.
I ran the pop culture blog Wrestling Entropy from 2004 through 2010, and my writing has also appeared on Spiked, PopMatters, Daytrotter, Maura Magazine, Public Streets, and Bright Wall/Dark Room. A few of my favorite old pieces from those days include “How to Buy a Guitar in Chicago,” “On Magic: Reflections Inspired by Deceptive Practice,” and “All in the Family: On Steve McQueen’s Shame.”
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I’m also a publishing industry veteran, having started my career at a midsized independent book publishing house in Chicago back in 2002.
I’ve edited and prepared for print hundreds of titles in a variety of genres, some of which you may have even heard of! I worked on the definitive biography of comedy writer Doug Kenney, A Futile and Stupid Gesture (yes, the one they made into a Netflix movie starring Will Forte as Doug Kenney); Henry Rollins’s photography book Occupants; Ned Sublette’s award-winning history of the Crescent City, The World That Made New Orleans; Dennis McKenna’s memoir about growing up with his brother Terence, The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss; and 2022 Indie Author of the Year Pascuala Herrera’s self-published memoir Not Always a Valley of Tears.
If you want to learn more about my 20+ years in the publishing industry, you can read a long interview with me here on Kimberly Monaghan’s site Books Uplift.
Work with Me!
I am currently available for consultations and freelance work. Please reach out if you have a book project that you’re looking to get off the ground! I can advise you on the process of self-publishing or pitching to a publisher, can recommend terrific cover and interior designers, and can edit your text for the spelling, grammar, and punctuation rules that your English teachers probably never fully explained to you in school.
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