I am lucky… in a lot of ways, many of which I’ve talked about here, but today I’m going to tell you that I am lucky to be a mildly professional book talker. Before I became what I am today, I was an enthusiastic amateur book talker, and then I went to school and became […]
In the opening chapter of his Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres, music critic and journalist Kelefa Sanneh makes the observation that Musicians, I have learned, generally hate talking about genres. And reasonably enough: it’s not their job. Virtually every music interview I have conducted has elicited some version of the […]
I remember the first mistake I ever found in a novel.
Jennifer deBie author 