Rodney Welch: The Blog

The Chosen One by Rodney Welch via #soundcloud https://t.co/VnoyXWX2fp — RodneyWelch (@RodneyWelch) July 27, 2016

The good folks at Full Stop  chose my July 8 piece on the third volume of  Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle as one of the ten best rev...

The New Republic to halt publication until 2015 after staff walkouts

The New Republic may be, in the words of owner Chris Hughes "bigger than any one of us" -- but is it bigger than the 50-plus staff...

Has anyone ever drafted a "Nabokov: From Best to Worst" list? If so, Laughter in the Dark would likely have a fairly secure s...

On Light Up Gold , their break-through second album from 2012, Brooklyn-based Parquet Courts established themselves as a great funky punky...

No one ever looks at a mugshot and says "I think he's innocent."

"My stories all start with character, and because they all have trouble and they have to figure out what they are go...

I don't know the language of music, so I always have to scramble around in my toolbox to find some kind of emotional or metaphoric t...

I gave Julia Elliott's short story collection The Wilds a bit of a rave some weeks ago, amidst interviewing her for the Free-Times. I...

Looks like that great Sufjan Stevens Christmas song " Put the Lights on the Tree" is now being used to sell chicken.

A few years ago on this very blog, I explored my fascination with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, an enormously ambitious and prolific filmmaker...

Started reading Joseph and His Brothers yesterday. Mann requires additional help.

  I'm a huge, huge fan of the first LP by The Pretenders, but it wasn't until this evening that I saw this riveting 1980 cover of ...