My review of the Nels Cline/Wally Shoup/Chris Corsano disc Immolation/Immersion is up at PopMatters today. It was a tough piece to write, as I sometimes find it hard to think of new ways to describe seemingly indescribable sounds. I thought the piece turned out pretty well, however. Next up: That long-promised Robert Pollard interview. If that is posted soon, watch for my Q&A with Uncle Bob here next Monday.

Thanks to Pollard's effusive nature, I had enough to write a few thousand words for PopMatters, compile a decent-sized Q&A for TIRBD and had things left over I couldn't use anywhere. Contrast that with a more reticent fellow like Lawrence Block, and the differences are startling. Block may be a prolific writer, but that easy way with words doesn't translate to interviews. Maybe he's saving his words for his books. Whatever the case, the new issue of Bookslut has an interview with Block that is almost painful to read given Block's terse responses. I interviewed Block in 1999 when he was on tour for one of his Bernie Rhodenbarr books, and while he wasn't chatty, he was more talkative for me than he was for this more recent interview. Still, he reveals that Hit Parade, the third Keller book, will be published July 4, and talks a bit about Manhattan Noir, the anthology he edited for Akashic Books (which is part of a series that also includes D.C. Noir edited by George Pelecanos and Dublin Noir, edited by Ken Bruen, two more TIRBD faves).