Cool things I recommend (probably not a 'gift guide' but maybe?)
Welcome to Reasonable Things, an occasional newsletter about music, language, and meaning from Joel Heng Hartse. Happy Thanksgiving to the Americans! I...
Baseball will break your heart and every song is a love song
Welcome to Reasonable Things, an occasional newsletter about music, language, and meaning from Joel Heng Hartse. “It breaks your heart. It is designed to...
I will buy you some music
Welcome to Reasonable Things, an occasional newsletter about music, language, and meaning from Joel Heng Hartse. A new academic year is beginning, I’ve got...
More notes on, obviously, music, writing, and music writing
Welcome to Reasonable Things, an occasional newsletter about music, language, and meaning from Joel Heng Hartse. What I Taught Last week I finished up my...
How to Do Things With Words: brief goings-on
Welcome to Reasonable Things, an occasional newsletter about music, language, and meaning from Joel Heng Hartse. — Central to everything I am and believe and...
A Playlist for November 6, 2024
songs for whatever it is that's happening now.
Notes toward a theory of posting
Welcome to Reasonable Things, an occasional newsletter about music, language, and meaning from Joel Heng Hartse. I've been thinking a lot lately about the...
Of Making Many Books There is No End
"... honestly, I don't think our movies should be watched. I have no idea why we make them. All I know is this: we keep coming here after school every single...
Interview with Music Journalism Insider
Welcome to Reasonable Things, an occasional newsletter about music, language, and meaning from Joel Heng Hartse. This summer I did an interview with Todd...
An extended interview with John Van Deusen
Ahoy! This is an extended version of the piece I published in early August, an interview with the Anacortes, WA- based "Christian" (scare quotes for many...
Dear Coach's Corner (Canadian content warning)
Welcome to Reasonable Things, an occasional newsletter about music, language, and meaning from Joel Heng Hartse. For several years, I've been really into the...
We Rebuild What You Destroy
Welcome to Reasonable Things, an occasional newsletter about music, language, and meaning from Joel Heng Hartse. OK, first: here's a 40% off discount code...
My new book is OUT
Welcome to Reasonable Things, an occasional newsletter about music, language, and meaning from Joel Heng Hartse. Most of you already know this, but I just...
Nervous
Welcome to Reasonable Things, an occasional newsletter about music, language, and meaning from Joel Heng Hartse. Hey! I hope to have news about my new book...
A Conversation with Aaron Weiss of mewithoutYou
Welcome to Reasonable Things! (Warning: This is going to be a long one.) Earlier this week I spoke to Aaron Weiss, the singer of the band mewithoutYou, for...
“The Mountain Goats is just Christian Rock for Gay Millennials”
Welcome to Reasonable Things, an occasional newsletter about music, language, and meaning from Joel Heng Hartse. “The Mountain Goats is just Christian Rock...
A brief dispatch
My pre-sabbatical summer of no teaching has been pretty crowded so far. So here are some highlights of stuff I’ve done lately! I officially submitted the...
The opposite of nostalgia
"Everything I feel now as an adolescent is true. This is who I am. Each day that passes I grow away from my true self. Every inch I take towards adulthood is...
Chinese Satellite
Chinese Satellite When Judee Still introduced her song “Enchanted Sky Machines” at a 1971 concert in Boston as “a religious song about flying saucers coming...
The Gift of Hope and Fear
Ahoy! I am done with grading for the semester and here to share some stuff I've been writing, reading, and listening to. WRITING I wrote a piece about what...