I just realized that, while I had posted about this to my site’s main page and to thebookofvoices.com, I hadn’t blogged it. So here it goes (in somewhat more detail than the brief notices at the other places).
The Book of Voices will be published this coming November by Apocryphile Press. I was very pleased with [...]
Well, the Book of Voices is done, or at least at a point where I can feel comfortable submitting it around. I did write the eight interludes, which pull things together more effectively, and make points in the 49 stories reinforce one another.
This also entailed a bit of rewriting of the stories themselves, which also [...]
Things have been both insanely busy and quiet here in frigid Cleveland.
I’ve moved into a beautiful, relatively tiny new apartment, a few blocks from the Cedar-Lee Theater and from Phoenix Coffee on Lee. It’s a one bedroom space on the third floor of… um… what would be called a duplex if there weren’t a [...]
Here’s a complete video of my performance this past Saturday night, courtesy of archive.org. Texts include “Lead Me In,” excerpts from “The Book of Voices” and “Shekhinah: the Presence,” “Psalm 183,” “Decoy (for Miles Davis),” and “Air Lines.” All of the texts are available here at www.josephzitt.com.
Enjoy!
(For some reason, this still frame looks [...]
From a Fortune article on happiness and success at work:
“The two most important predictors of success are, first, whether we believe our behavior matters, that is, whether we think we can make a real difference — and many people lose that belief in hard times, because so much is out of their control,” [Shawn] Achor [...]
As in so many stores, our CD selection now takes up less space than before. The entire industry has been reducing in-store holdings. But with the moving of the furniture to open up space for, among other things, an increased teen book and manga area, customers have been asking a lot more questions.
One thing [...]
Well, I thought the book was complete. But in going through it again, strengthening some threads of plot, etc, I discovered some bits that had to be present, for dramatic and structural reasons.
The first of these is a new entry for Sarah.
This one may seem a bit more enigmatic than most, since it mostly sets [...]
Sorry I haven’t blogged in a while. Lots of things happening, including deciding on things that won’t happen. The biggest thing: I’m staying in Cleveland. This is good.
I’ve finished writing the opening and closing segments of The Book of Voices.
Each is from the point of view of a non-Biblical character, Elisheva. I hope that they tie together threads from the stories between them. The opening is quite short. The closing is, admittedly, very long (about 6500 words).
I will, no doubt, be incorporating [...]
Since (and to a significant extent, because of) my last post, things seem to be coming together for a return to San Francisco.
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