This was my first Dan Brown experience, brought about by a member of my Rock & Roll Bookclub who has spent much time studying Dante’s Divine Comedy, the book at the middle of Inferno. With…
Posts Published by Jodi Chromey
Everything the light touches is my kingdom. Well, at least where this website is concerned. There's an about me section if you are so inclined to know things. All the posts were written by me. I have a lot of words.
RiotFest Diaries: Chicago doesn’t seem tired at all, but I am
Twelve hours after leaving my house, I collapsed into our temporary hotel room in Chicago. Apparently it’s temporary because the blinds are broken and they can’t move us until tomorrow. I don’t care about the…
Not so easy to dismiss
I was pretty tempted to dismiss Adelle Waldman’s The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. as one of those annoying, pointless books steeped in its own Brooklynness and thus published because if there’s anything Brooklyn writers…
Back to Backlash: Wherein I dream the ‘Mats are once again a garage band
As the title states, I am back to watching the “Backlash” video on repeat. I have watched this video so many times since Thanksgiving that I have every single thing memorize. Every flip of Joan…
We Sinners
The Rovaniemi family of Michigan are the stars of Hannah Pylväinen’s “novel” We Sinner. What’s with the quotes? They might have slapped the label novel on the cover of this one but it sure as…
It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: Rock & Roll Anxiety Edition
10:58 a.m. Mornings get off to a bumpy start when I wake up (at 9 a.m. lately, I’ve been rocking the 12:30-1 a.m. bedtime since Labor day) all itchy-nosed and swollen-eyed. Allergies are a motherfucker…