Glen Hirshberg's Blog - Posts Tagged "music-and-writing"

Haven't really written much nonfiction since THE SNOWMAN'S CHILDREN came out in 2002 and the ghost stories appeared and then my second child was born and my creative writing program took off and I decided something had to go and stopped writing for L.A. WEEKLY. But it turns out I've missed it. Or else I'm starting to get the hang of this blog-tour promotional thing. Had an afternoon-long, DJ'd (by me) party at my desk writing about the music threaded through MOTHERLESS CHILD for the Booknotes column on one of favorite internet sites, Largehearted Boy (that will run July 11th; I'll post a link). Then lit out for more dangerous waters and went right at vampires and sex. That one may have scared the site I originally wrote it for. We'll see. Don't care. Queuing up GOOD GIRLS for the morning. Pump up the volume...

At this point, having draped it over so many hundreds of my mornings, I'm not sure I can say whether Richard Skelton's skeletal, aching, oceanic music inspires my writing or just accompanies it. What I can say is that the space it creates, the world it evokes--a whistle in the grass, gray light on green water, faces in dark spaces in trees ("How to Like It"-Stephen Dobyns)--is the world in which I go wordpicking. And whatever walks there, walks beside me.