The Kickstarter Letters by David David Katzman
What is The Kickstarter Letters?
I funded the entire print run of my second novel, A Greater Monster, through a Kickstarter project.* As a reward, I wrote each of my 128 contributors a stream-of-consciousness email or handwritten letter. This book is a signed & numbered handmade, hardback collection of 52 of those letters.
Lost in Concert: Volume One
About Lost in Concert:
Music has been an integral part of each of our lives since long before we could differentiate between harmony and melody, put together a quality playlist or sneak into an all-ages show. Music makes a great day extraordinary and a bad day bearable. It turns moments into memories and gives large groups of people a reason to dance like no one’s watching. Music is a universal language that everyone is fluent in; concerts are the live manifestation of that music. When artists get on stage, the hours, days, weeks and even years of blood, sweat and tears put into their work gets to be experienced by the audience in its purest form without the benefit of a post-production safety net or a second take. It’s their chance to create a community and connect on a personal level that other mediums just don’t possess. It can be a great show or a poor performance, but it’s an experience you won’t soon forget. Eventually, though, like everything else in life, the memories will fade and the details will get fuzzy. Musicians use music as a vehicle for expression to paint their picture; we use music as the canvas by layering and combining pictures and words to create our own visceral experience. Rather than just seeing it and reading about it, you get ripped out of your seat and you get to feel it.
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