My hands grip the steering wheel at 10 and 2, my eyes focus on the road, but my mind reels back through the years to seventh grade when holding hands was a big deal.
Driving Home by Risa Nye
Category: July 2012
Long Time Gone: September 27, 2010 by Sheila Grace Stuewe
Instead of funding my 401K, I invest in concert tickets…. I know it seems absurd to spend money to find a way to escape from it. But I’m doing it anyway.
Rocking My Baby by Nancy Davis Kho
From the moment the baby was born, music took a backseat to nursing pads, sleep training and nasal aspirators.
Stone Cold Fox by Melanie Malinowski
I love Steven Tyler. He sucks the marrow out of my bones. I liquefy, burn. I would crawl 10 miles over broken glass to lie naked in his shadow.
Liner Notes: July 2012
“The waiting is the hardest part….” That’s a line from a song of the same name by my all time favorite band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. And waiting to release this issue has been hard. This month we’ve turned Hippocampus Magazine into a mixtape of creative nonfiction. Our first theme issue is dedicated to…
Review: Becoming Jimi Hendrix by Steven Roby and Brad Schrieber
Certain names in twentieth century music will always ring as champions. Born a little too late, I’ve never paid much attention to Jimi Hendrix’s music so when I stumbled across this biography, I decided to correct this wrong.
Review: No Regrets: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir by Ace Frehley
Paul “Ace” Frehley is alive and with no regrets. His rock and roll story is one of interest for musicians, aspiring guitarists and the KISS army— the multitude of fans.
Interview: Chris Charlesworth, music journalist and publisher
Chris Charlesworth has been giving readers a glimpse into the rewards and pitfalls of the music business as editor with Omnibus Press in London, the world’s largest specialist publisher of music-related books…
Craft: Working on My Rewrite by Risa Nye
Changing titles and endings are just the beginning: spade work. Working on a rewrite requires serious machinery—the type of heavy equipment that allows us to dig deep and plow ahead.
The Writing Life: An Open Letter to My Muse by Hilary Meyerson
As a writer, I often get the question, “Where do you get your ideas?” I also hear it often at book readings when they open up the floor to questions. I love watching other, more famous writers, grind their teeth as they struggle to answer.
