Insanely proud to announce that HarperCollins will be publishing two children’s books I wrote.
More details to follow.
HC has published the work of Shel Silverstein, Maurice Sendak and tons of other wonderful kid’s book authors.
Cobain Article at Salon
Over at Salon, I compared the recently uncovered haunting, beautiful Kurt Cobain crime scene images (nothing gory) to the high art photography of William Eggleston and Stephen Shore.
Esquire Article
Over at Esquire, I run down the best novels about JFK in honor of the 50th anniversary of his death.
Salon Article
Over at Salon, I help parents ditch their kids’ annoying music about cows and pigs and sharing for something a little hipper.
Article in Esquire
Esquire allowed me to write an article about how Billy Corgan ruined the new In Utero reissue by Nirvana.
Nirvana’s In Utero is getting the royal treatment as a 20th-anniversary triple disc/one DVD expanded reissue, out September 24. The blowout collection promises demos, alternate mixes, unreleased tracks, and some irresistible liner notes, which, according to Rolling Stone, include “Cobain’s handwritten lyrics, a four-page letter [Steve] Albini wrote the band prior to recording detailing his plans for In Utero, plus liner notes written by comedian and occasional In Utero tour opening act Bobcat Goldthwait.”
This all sounds like a Marshall stack of goodness to the unwashed Gen-Xer inside us all. But there is a problem. This well-intentioned box set is coming out too late. The expanded reissue album is dead.
For that, we can all thank Billy Corgan.
Wensink Overload?
August 14 will go down as the day I nearly crashed the World Wide Web. I had not one, but two articles published in respectable-like places.
First, Salon ran my obituary of blues legend T-Model Ford.
Then, the New York Times ran my article on combating our toddler’s ant problem by seeking out someone called “The Bug Lady.”
What’s in a Nickname?
Patrick Reads on NPR.
Patrick recently read the unreleased short story “Krenels,” a fictitious history of the Kentucky Colonels professional basketball team, on NPR’s UNBOUND.
New Articles in Salon.
Salon recently ran two wildly different articles I wrote:
“The Weirdest Album to Ever Go Platinum” about the 20th anniversary of The Breeders’ Last Splash.
“Gun nuts’ strangest subculture: Book clubs” about the literary scene found at mega gun shows in America.
Essay in The Millions
The Millions recently published my ode to poets for National Poetry Month:
