A sort of literary music minute. Punks. Jews. Springsteen. Love. Okay, we're not sure about the love part in general, but we're feeling it. Big time.

Last week we were riffing on meeting author David Masciotra who's doing this new joint on Bruce Springsteen at Continuum and then almost immediately we see that Continuum has posted some lengthy blurbage about the book Working on a Dream - The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen on their website. Quite cool stuff indeed. And then today we see that The New York Times, yes that New York Times, has done a piece about a gathering and panel discussion in New York City on the intersection between being punk and being Jewish led by some legendary Jew Punks, Tommy Ramone and Lenny Kaye among others, and in the article they quote author and friend Steven Lee Beeber's most excellent book The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's, which we have written about here in the blog and reviewed for Wonka Vision magazine. Also good stuff. And all worth checking-out don't you think? Way.

A cold and rainy 2009 Printers Row Lit Fest, Orange Alert, Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine, interviews and such.

More or less in order. We hit the 2009 Printers Row Lit Fest yesterday. We worked the Orange Alert table with the Behrends. We sold copies of Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine. We hyped the new Orange Alert joint Sunlight at Midnight, Darkness at Noon. We did an interview with La Guth and Chicago Subtext, more on that soon, we think. And we had coffee with author David Masciotra (and his lovely girlfriend Sara), who has a new book which we are way geeked about on Bruce Springsteen, his lyrics and politics coming out on Continuum around the beginning of the year. It was cold and rainy, but much fun and we have the pictures to prove it.