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.
In a nutshell: I need to get back to San Francisco. I don’t know how to do it.
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