In Chicago. Signing books before breakfast. Cannot hear chickens, can hear people talking eagerly about books, so that’s a fair trade. Here to say thank you for this.

Box elder bugs.

The Blind Boys of Alabama have been singing the gospel since the late 1930s. Last winter they gathered in rural Fall Creek with my neighbor Justin Vernon and recorded a…View post

Meant to post this during the recently concluded book tour (or terrr) as we are wont to say hereabouts. Chapter Six of Visiting Tom includes the story of how this house went from…View post

In Visiting Tom I write about going over to his place to saw lumber. These photos are from that day (taken mostly by my buddy Mills). Some of the photos correspond to…View post