Callahan, Bill / Letters To Emma Bowlcut

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After years of writing songs and singing them into the space in front of him, BILL CALLAHAN has written a book of words to go out into that space as well. Letters to Emma Bowlcut is just that, the letters from a boy to a girl. It is in fact one side of the story, and as such is a meditation on solitude, at times tracing a relationship but mainly making the expressions of a person’s soul secrets that are too difficult to impart face to face. A fiction with a nameless protagonist, Letters to Emma Bowlcut collects sixty-two letters that capture the sensual and esoteric qualities of letter correspondence that cannot be duplicated by any fancy digital technologies.

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