fiction and creative non-fiction from Brennan Quenneville
Part of what I love about Hamilton is that it's a show about everything---well, maybe not everything but the show's characters certainly experience a lot of what makes being a person such a wild experience. All the big ticket themes that you'd expect make appearances: Hamilton and his friends must fight a war before figuring [...]
Every word of Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness is burned into my brain. So too are the album's subtle motifs and, no less, its more obvious ones. This is largely because, for a spell in the mid-2000s, progressive rock concept albums—with their overwrought titles, literary [...]
As I write this I've just finished reading Volume Three of the incredible Saga series of comics by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples. From the opening page of Volume One, I've been completely enthralled with Saga and yet I haven't so much as considered writing about the series or, if I did, what I [...]
This time of year, when the days are growing longer and warmer, my omnipresent-but-oft-latent wanderlust awakens and blooms with the dandelions. Unlike the rebirth of that yellow scourge, I've embraced the urge to travel, especially since Caitlin and I got married in May of 2014. This will be the first year that we've not taken [...]
The fast approaching end of 2019 means not only the end of the year but also of the decade. Ten years ago, in a similar situation, I was new to blogging and felt obligated to make clear that my decade-spanning retrospective was no more than one man's personal opinion. In 2019, there's no need for [...]
Songs & Stories 