Synopses & Reviews
Progressive rock is maligned and misunderstood. Critics hate it. Hipsters scoff at it.
Yes Is The Answer is a pointed rebuke to the prog-haters, the first literary collection devoted to the sub-genre. Featuring acclaimed novelists Rick Moody, Wesley Stace, Seth Greenland, Charles Bock, and Joe Meno, as well as musicians Nathan Larson, and Peter Case,
Yes Is The Answer is a book that dares to reclaim prog-rock as a subject worthy of serious consideration.
About the Author
Marc Weingarten is the author of
The Gang That Wouldnt Write Straight and
Station to Station. He is producer of the 2011 documentary
God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, as well as television's
The Bachelor and
The Bachelorette. He lives in Malibu, CA.
Tyson Cornell is the founder of Rare Bird Lit, a Los Angeles and New York-based literary PR and marketing company specializing in book promotion for authors, publishers, and organizations in North America and Europe. He lives with his wife and two children in downtown Los Angeles.
Rick Moody is the best-selling author of Garden State, The Ice Storm, The Diviners, On Celestial Music, The Black Veil, Demonology, and others. He lives in New York.
Charles Bock is author of the debut novel Beautiful Children was selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year for 2008, and won the 2009 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives New York with his daughter.
Seth Greenland is the Pushcart Prize-nominated author of The Bones, Shining City, and The Angry Buddhist. He is also a writer/producer of the Emmy-nominated HBO series Big Love. He lives with his wife and children in Los Angeles.
Charles Bock on PowellsBooks.Blog
My new novel,
Alice and Oliver, is loosely based on the first year of my late wife Diana Colbert’s battle with leukemia, a disease she was diagnosed with when our infant daughter was six months old. As you might suspect from that lead-in, it is a book about love and generosity and the conflict between what we owe ourselves and what we owe others...
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