Bill Callahan

from Apology Hosted by Jesse Pearson

On this episode of the Apology podcast, the songwriter, musician, writer, and artist Bill Callahan speaks with Apology founder and editor Jesse Pearson about many bookish and non-bookish topics including the brilliance of the writer Barry Hannah, Bill’s codebreaker parents, DC hardcore heroes Void, dropping out of college to focus on music, the Scottish writer James Kelman, Studs Terkels’s oral histories, the dogged grind of songwriting, the brilliance of Emily Dickinson, and way more.

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Heirloom - Complete by T. Duthie-Lisle Loyal Books It is not the pleasing office of the writer of fiction to unfold for the delectation of his readers the pages and pictures of the volume of life; and none know better than the true novelist that the wildest schemes which his imagination can conceive, the marvellous combinations which a turn of the magic kaleidoscope of eventualities, and what we misname fortune, may produce, are again and again out acted in real life.With this apology the incidents of the following story are committed to the criticism of an indulgent, and the writer trusts, a not too severely critical world.THE AUTHOR "The hardiest spirit may well quail before the stupendous task of giving any accurate idea of what is, apparently, the first-fruits of Mr. Duthie-Lisle's imagination" "...obtrudes itself on almost every page as deficient in sense as of grammar" "...this incredibly foolish book" "One of the missions of the literary critic is to warn off intending readers from books that are utterly worthless, and '

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