Ghosts, Monsters and Demons of India by Rakesh Khanna; J. Furcifer Bhairav. 5/5 This is an excellent and fun guide to ghosts, monsters, and demons of India, complete with chatty definitions and stories, variant lore, and much more. It’s great …
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Protectress is featured again in Kirkus magazine, this time in a round-up of books about ancient gods! You can also access it here.
Dana Reason, the co-lead with Terri Lyne Carrington in scoring the 99 films of Kino Lorber’s Cinema’s First Nasty Women collection, sent me the new album that’s come from the project, Cinema’s First Nasty Women Compilation Soundtrack, Vol. 1. Here’s …
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I did an interview with Leo Collins of Voyage for their Bold Journey Series. Read it all here! As a bonus, here’s me as a horse kid (age about 8, riding a school horse named Bess who was the best …
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Inanna by Emily H. Wilson. 2/5 I understand what Wilson is trying to do here, to tell the story of Inanna and the gods and demi-gods of Mesopotamia, like Gilgamesh. But the characters mostly don’t have a lot of personality, …
Pink Moon by Roshan James. 1/5 The concept sounded interesting but the poetry just isn’t good. It’s a trite and formulaic and boring. Just a Fika by Beck Erixson. 1/5 So, you’ve got a ghost grandma who’s intent on fixing …
Where am I? I’m back home in Houston, and I have a lot going on! I’d love to see faces old and new at these events. July 11 I’ll be on a panel sponsored by the Dramatist’s Guild called “Operatunity! …
On July 11 at 7 pm Central time, I’ll be talking with hosts Cerise Jacobs and Amy Punt and fellow librettists Sokunthary Svay, Omar Najmi, and Brandy Carie on a Dramatists’ Guild panel called Librettists in Conversation: Building a Career …
Todd L. Burns of Music Journalism Insider interviewed me for his newsletter. We talked about my origins as a cellist, how I became a lyricist and librettist, my current scholarly research, and more. Sign up for his newsletter, which is …