Interrogating Grief: A Converstion with Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
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...moreIn an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert promoting his new book, Born to Run, the Boss listed his favorite songs by the Boss. Also, he explained why he puts the E Street Band through four-hour long marathon shows, and the chafing that comes with them, saying: “I’m here to take you out of time… I’m here to alter time […]
...moreMusic contextualizes our feelings, clarifies them, gives them new meaning.
...moreKathleen Hanna contributed a cover to Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” for the upcoming film Maggie’s Plan, Consequence of Sound reports. Apparently Hanna also makes a cameo in the film, leading some therapeutic tribal chants. Check out the cover after the jump.
...moreFollowing in The Boss’s footsteps, many musicians are speaking out against North Carolina’s so-called “bathroom bill,” which bans trans men and women from using bathrooms of a gender other than that listed on their birth certificates. Ringo Starr, Pearl Jam, Boston, Ani DiFranco, Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas have cancelled shows scheduled in North Carolina in […]
...moreIt’s become a pretty much universally acknowledged fact that there was no greater way for The Daily Show to go out than with Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band. Jon Stewart and the Boss have been mutual fans for years, something publicly cemented in their 2012 interview for Rolling Stone, where Springsteen told the […]
...morePoet Victoria Chang talks about the process behind writing her newest collection, The Boss, what it’s like to balance a nine-to-five office job with your craft, and intimidatingly good-looking crowds at small-press poetry readings.
...morePreviously, we blogged about a reading by Victoria Chang from her new poetry collection The Boss. Here’s a Q&A with Chang about that book, her approach to poetry, and her day job in the business world. An excerpt: I wrote these poems in a car while waiting for our four-year-old to finish a Chinese language class […]
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