a literary confidence
To cities, towns, rivers and islands, real and imagined, host Wayne Cresser of Picture This: Film Music on the Radio, followed the music to far flung destinations, and you can hear it all by clicking on the link that says Listen Here:--Join him this coming Sunday at WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM and streaming at wriu.org, as he spins the movie songs of Bing Crosby, Van Dyke Parks, and Manfred Mann, among others.
Listen here-sometimes people just want to sing about the movies and movie stars and glamour and all that. Anyhow, that's how it went down Sunday 7/19 at 6 PM on Picture This: Film Music on the Radio, as always, broadcasting on WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM and streaming at wriu.org. Tune in 7/26 when host Wayne Cresser explores two very different scores, Budd Schulberg's music for A Face in the Crowd and Taj Mahal's music for Sounder.
I'm a little excited, no, a lot. And so giddy I could continue to string together loosely related song lyrics for another few paragraphs, but you're time is precious. Shouldn't waste it. It's money. And there is no time like the present for me to announce that The Book of Norman, my new collection of short stories, is available for sale now on this platform. Go to this page to find out more: https://wcresser.com/
Here Comes Herodotus, Again! (and other miscrohistories), is a forty-page chapbook comprised of 14 short stories which examine how life can be a series of swift mementos.
The whole business makes me dippy, and honestly, I don’t care about any of it unless there’s some magic in the work itself, a spark in the melody or the lyric that will distinguish the work the way all great art is distinguished, by its timelessness and universal appeal. A song, for the sake of this argument, like the small wonder that is 1968’s, “Till Death Us Do Part.”
Just Between You and Me 