Robert Stapleton’s Reading the Groove offers brief conversations with writers about the intersection of music, rhythm, language, inspiration, and occasional bad taste. To go to the column page, please click here. Maria McKee was the singer and founding member of the seminal roots rock band Lone Justice. As a singer-songwriter she has released five studio albums and scored a […]
Reading the Groove: Micah Ling
March 19, 2012 by 1 Comment
Robert Stapleton’s Reading the Groove offers brief conversations with writers about the intersection of music, rhythm, language, inspiration, and occasional bad taste. To go to the column page, please click here. Micah Ling is the author of two books of poetry, Sweetgrass and Three Islands. She teaches at Franklin College and Butler University. In 2011 she claimed the Emerging […]
Reading the Groove: Charles Harper Webb
October 28, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Reading the Groove offers brief conversations with writers about the intersection of music, rhythm, language, inspiration, and occasional bad taste. To go to the column page, please click here. Charles Harper Webb’s books include Shadow Ball, Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies, Liver, and Reading the Water. His poems have appeared in the Paris Review, American Poetry Review, and Ploughshares. […]
Reading the Groove: Nick Hornby
September 6, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Nick Hornby is the author of the novels Juliet, Naked, Slam, A Long Way Down, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. His collection of essays on music, Songbook, which has been described as the soundtrack to his life, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle […]
Reading the Groove: Chris Offutt
July 15, 2011 by 1 Comment
This is the latest in Robert Stapleton’s Reading the Groove. To go to the column page, please click here. Chris Offutt is the author of No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home, Out of the Woods, The Good Brother, The Same River Twice, and Kentucky Straight. He has received awards from the American Academy of […]
