“Immaculately tailored… Sometimes [Foucault’s] songs run right up to the edge of the grandiose and hold still, and that’s when he’s best… Close to perfection” – New York Times Deadstock in the Storm with Jeffrey Foucault Jeffrey Foucault is a top shelf songwriter. Foucault has a slew of albums worth your collection and his latest Deadstock should be the first one you pick up. Deadstock has been a real good friend to me in the ups and downs of this season. Foucault’s music makes a grown man like me swoon, sway, and slyly sing his lyrics to myself. This is the type of music that …
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Being is Action with Andrew Krivak
“In spare and lovely prose, Andrew Krivak folds the deep past and the far future into a remarkable fable about our inheritance as humanity makes a harmonic return to the spirit and animal worlds. This book follows you, like a river under ice.” – Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s Son and Fortune Smiles Being is Action with Andrew Krivak Andrew Krivak is the author of three novels: The Signal Flame (2017), a Chautauqua Prize finalist, and The Sojourn (2011), a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction, and his latest novel, The …
Immersion Journalist of the Soul with Fred Bahnson
“The gate of heaven opens for us all, but the hinge swings outward as much as inward, leading not into some hermetically sealed chamber, but a spacious meadow where we find every person we’ve ever known, a field of solitaries loved beyond measure, a destination as near as our next breath.” — Fred Bahnson Immersion Journalist of the Soul with Fred Bahnson Fred Bahnson is an immersion journalist of the soul and one of my favorite public contemplative intellectuals. If you’ve been hanging out around Contemplify, you have likely heard his name or seen links to his work. And I am …