In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly Wilson, Harold Budd, Christian Wolff, and others.Virginia Anderson edits the first published collecti...

An epic work of multi-decade reporting immersed in the lives of two gay soldiers before, during, and after Don't Ask, Don't Tell, from the author of the bestselling contemporary classic, Columbine.Years before he became a celebrated author, Dave Cullen, in denial about his own sexuality, enlisted in the Army infantry praying it would teach him to be a “real man.” His own experience informs this sweeping yet intimate account of two career soldiers ...