So I’m sitting here writing about Jimmy Cliff and in my mind I can hear the blowback. Believe me, I’ve always gotten negative responses, but not with the vociferousness, the put-downs, the holier-than-thou attitudes of correspondents today. Is it about me or is it the nature of the world at large? Or maybe it’s just […]

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“Walk My Walk” went to number one! And the media couldn’t stop talking about it. Musicians are freaking out about it. And my inbox is filling up about it. And there’s no story here. The truth is Breaking Rust’s AI song “Walk My Walk” sold digital singles, which are weighted artificially high in the “Billboard” […]

This won the Booker Prize. And I was surprised. Because this is the first time I’ve ever read one of the winning books before it was anointed. Furthermore, I usually find the winning books close to unreadable. They titillate the committee, academics, but they are not for the proletariat. But “Flesh”? At first I couldn’t […]