Entries by AlanPaul
I’m getting the band back together and heading to Shanghai and Beijing Lit Fests.
Very excited to announce that I will be headed to Beijing and Shanghai for book talks and Woodie Alan reunion shows. March 15 in Shanghai, March 17 in Beijing. More details here. I am appearing at the Shanghai Literary Festival and Capital Literary Festival. The WA shows are also part of the Jue Music Festival. […]
Chinese pollution and the Beijing Blues
I will be very happy when this Big in China excerpt about living with the horrible, pea-soup pollution seems like old, oudated news. But over the past few days, the pollution readings have reached beyond “really awul” to “just insanely, unbelievably horrible.” The Atlantic’s James Fallows writes very well and quite thoroughly on the topic here, […]
Chasing Ice: Great imagery telling a crucial story
Chasing Ice looks like a remarkable codumentary and I am really looking forward to seeing it. Much more information here, including a great interview with photographer James Balog. Balog, from that page: “The science community is really interesting because they have a huge amount of knowledge. You canot believe what the specialists in these various […]
Why letters from Big in China readers have meant so much…
I have continued to receive consistent, sporadic, heartfelt emails from people who read Big in China and were moved enough to find my website and write me a note. They mean a lot to me. Writing can be a lonely task. You sit in some little room staring at your computer screen, trying to capture some elusive […]
Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Albert Collins!
Please check out my Amazon Ebook One Way Out: An Oral History of the Allman Brothers Band (Kindle Single). My good friend Kirk West has been going through his negatives and digitizing decades of great photographs. He has wonderful images of many subjects, including Croatia and the backroads of the American South. But the heart and soul […]
An Interview with Warren Haynes: Gov’t Mule’s Georgia Bootleg Box
Please check out my Amazon Ebook One Way Out: An Oral History of the Allman Brothers Band (Kindle Single). Gov’t Mule recently released the first installment in their ‘Bootleg Series.’ The Georgia Bootleg Box is a 6-disc set capturing a 3-night run from Georgia in 1996. The band was recorded live at The Georgia Theater in […]