Liner Notes #22: Road Trip
I’ve had to apologize a lot lately: Sorry, I can’t make my deadline. Sorry, I can’t take this gig on. Sorry to be such a bother; sorry, I can’t help; sorry,...
Liner Notes #21: No, I Won't Tell You My AO3
Confession, however little of one this may be: I have an AO3 account, have had one for a long time, and have been in fandom since the mid 1990s. I have read...
Liner Notes #20: Preparation
It’s been eighty-four years . . . I’ve had this dendrobium for almost a decade, probably. We are now ten—TEN?! WHAT—days from the launch of The Memory...
Liner Notes #19: Owning What You Do
Credit to Gabriella Buba for the ConCurrent logo and for saving me and everyone else from “graphic design is my passion” How to begin? In the five weeks...
Liner Notes #18: Connection
I have Sinners brain rot. Before anything else, I need to take care of book business. Here’s what’s going on with The Memory Hunters and Bitter Medicine:...
Liner Notes #17: Terrible Twos
Today is Pi Day! It’s also World Sleep Day, graduation day for Japanese high schoolers, Purim, and, oh yeah, the second anniversary of Bitter Medicine’s...
Liner Notes #16: The Memory Hunters Cover Reveal
If I do the math, The Memory Hunters has been with me in one form or another for nine years. For seven of those years, it was beast of a manuscript hovering...
Liner Notes #15: Beliefs and Applied Dissonance
I first encountered Shostakovich’s fifth symphony in high school, when I occupied the pianist position at the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra. Our...
Liner Notes #14: Medley
A photograph of a small shrine made of wood, with a blue Virgin Mary in the center. A figure of Jesus on the cross is above her, a two-dollar bill curled...
Liner Notes #13: Announcements and sundry
Image description: A picture of Lençóis Maranhensis National Park, Brazil, with “Liner Notes #13” superimposed in blue text Each time I think, “Self, you’re...
Liner Notes #12: Birthday Edition
A cropped version of the Bitter Medicine cover, with "Liner Notes #12" and "birthday edition" in blue script with a white outline Welcome to Liner Notes #12,...
Liner Notes #11: Bibliographies
Image description: the Liner Notes no. 11 header; the background is a picture of card catalogs, with one card catalog drawer open, "no, 11" pasted on the...
Liner Notes #9: Canon Events
Image description: A header featuring Miguel O'Hara from Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, with comic speech bubbles saying, "Liner notes...number 9!!" Once...
Liner Notes #8: Updates and a BOOK OF TONY excerpt
Hello and welcome to another belated Liner Notes. The above photo is one I took while in San Diego on book tour. It's been almost three months since Bitter...
Liner Notes no. 7: Updates and appearances
To Ty and Lauren, as you can see, I have squeezed the Lit Hub thing into the newsletter. Hello to everyone, and my apologies for a three-month silence!...
Liner Notes #6: Just Prog Rock Thoughts
Hello, and welcome to Liner Notes #6. I'd like to start with a correction from Liner Notes #5, where I asserted the person who stomped on the Club Q shooter...
Liner Notes #5: Mixtape
Alt text: An image in light pink and blue with a picture of a cassette tape. On the tape is the text "Liner Notes" and "Mixtape no. 5." On either side of the...
Liner Notes #4: The Value of Revisiting Work
Hello and welcome back to a very belated Liner Notes. I am very late on this, and I'm sorry. I had originally begun drafting this in late August, when I had...
Liner Notes #3: Années de pèlerinage
If you see the bad Photoshop job, no you didn't. I hope this isn't copyright infringement, first of all. Secondly, I am not so pretentious as to...
BITTER MEDICINE cover reveal
Mic check, mic check . . . is this thing on? Okay! For those of you who subscribed to Buzzfeed Books, I apologize for sending the cover out twice (they're...