...help make richmond fontaine one of your favorite bands i bring you this (in hopes it will inspire you to give them a listen and willy a read...)...well, actually it came to me today...i bought one of the new richmond fontaine t-shirts and with it came a couple of postcards. one announcing that willy vlautin, fontaine's would-be leader and chief songwriter, has yet another new novel coming out, called 'lean on pete'...he's garnered some great praise with his first two novels and this one seems to be geting some notice as well. you can read about the new book here in an interview he just did.
one review says:
‘This is a heartfelt, despairing novel…there is a tenderness of execution and brief promise of flawed redemption, without which no Country &Western ballad would be complete. The musicality is not an accident: the novel comes with a low-key alt country CD, a perfect accompaniment to the quietly hopeless, never-ending horror of poor America.”
— Financial Times, UK
so there. i like willy.
g. xo
so there. i like willy.
g. xo
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