Speechless

Note: I just did a tumblr on this, but after taking a second look, I decided to add it here as well. I'm still getting a feel for how to separate Stuff for Over There, and Stuff I Feel Okay About Putting Here. Work with me.

Back in February I had a chance to help out my wife’s uncle (my Uncle in-law?) Rob by recording and editing the audio for a reading of his short story, Wordless for Skive Magazine.

Rob is a fellow Memphian, a Cooper-Younger, a schooled naturalist and a superb writer (and, as you’ll hear, a fine reader despite his apprehension about it) whose work can be found in literary journals both here and abroad. (Numerous pieces from his collection of Vietnam stories, Nam: Things That Weren’t True and Other Stories, have recently been published in journals in both the UK and Australia.)

More recently, he received notice that The Connecticut Review had accepted one of his stories for print in fall 2009. They accept very few authors, many of them Pulitzer Prize winners. You’d think his credentials would make Thanksgiving a rather intimidating affair for little old me. But fortunately, he’s as modest as he is brilliant.

Anyway, I reckon my knowledge of how to get decent sound out of a cheap headphone mic and GarageBand could be better, but this wonderful story certainly couldn’t.

Wordless by Robert McGowan (via dabble778)