Moistworks is an audio blog launched by James Morris in 2004. A year later it was taken over by a cabal of writers: Andy Beta, Ben Greenman, Brian Howe, Megan Matthews, and Joanna Yas were regular contributors. Other folks helped out along the way, too. These days we post once or twice a week with music and as much text as the occasion calls for. We like hearing from you, so please comment or say “hi!” via the contact page—we’ll see you on the far side of this mess.
James Morris
started Moistworks in 2004
Alex Abramovich
used to play football with James
Steve Wynn
plays in The Dream Syndicate and other bands
Nicholas Butterworth
played bass in Dung Beetle, ran a music website called SonicNet, is still active in technology and lives in New York
Annabel R.
attends high school in New York City
Joan Linder
lives in Buffalo with humans and non-humans and has a fondness for middle management and paper products
Andrea La Rose
lives in Prague, plays flutes and other whistley things, composes, improvises, and, teaches, struggles with Czech and enjoys riding public transit with her wife and son
Dan Piepenbring
played drums in Vulture Shit and drives a 2003 Toyota Camry in the popular Desert Sand Mica colorway
Deb Olin Unferth
wrote a book about chickens
Charley Friedman’s
work touches upon religion, artifice, consumerism, ritual and material meaning
Paula Bomer
has two dogs and a cat; her dad is buried in Brownsville, Tennessee
Christopher Sorrentino
has a good recipe for Aggression Cookies
Marcellus Hall
has been logging 5-10 miles a day on his bike recently; his most recent book is available here
Garnette Cadogan
is a wanderer and essayist
Rob Reynolds
played guitar in Dung Beetle
Franz Nicolay
was once named the #1 accordion player in punk rock
Brian Howe
Moistworks original, ancient mariner at Pitchfork, last alt-weekly editor standing
Laura Newey
is reading Music at Keble College, Oxford
Dean Wareham
sings and plays for Luna, Galaxie 500 and Dean & Britta
Pat Thomas
has reissued vintage recordings by Elaine Brown, the Watts Prophets and others
Jenny Offill
knew us all way back when
Megan Matthews
was a writer, editor, and mom in Chicago
Deborah Zlotsky
lives in upstate New York with her new dog, Figgis, and her old husband, Michael
Susan Choi
worked with Alex and smoked her last cigarette with Jenny at the end of the last century
Garielle Lutz
wrote a few books of short stories
Becky Brown
is curious about technology, language, handwriting, anxiety, apologies, coffeemakers and the color pink
David L. Ulin
walks most mornings and plays guitar when he is alone