Music
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The Future is a Little Lonely: Marc Rebillet’s Drive-in Concert
We’re in a strange time right now. I realize that might be the most mind-numbingly obvious thing you’ve ever read but I’m also sure it’s something you’ve said at least once to someone in your life in the last week, or it was said to you. Because it’s an all-over kind of strangeness we’re dealing with right now, it is far more than one thing. It feels as though almost everything about modern American society is in flux. There’s been the COVID-19 pandemic (duh) and the quarantine that followed, bringing nearly everyone’s life to a more noticeable halt than anything in the last fifty years. Unless you’re an essential worker…
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Masterpieces in Some Other World: Mac Miller’s Circles and D.F.W.’s The Pale King
I finished reading The Pale King by David Foster Wallace yesterday. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. For those of you who don’t know, The Pale King is an unfinished novel. David Foster Wallace had been working on it off and on for about ten years, and while he had hundreds of thousands of polished and publish-ready words set aside in a neat stack, it remained incomplete when he succumbed to his depression and killed himself in September of 2008. His longtime editor, Michael Pietsch, was given the task of putting the book together using the stack of manuscript Wallace had set aside, other chapters and…
