He is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an inspired, lyrical novel, and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named one of the best books of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and received a California Book Award. “NY Guitar poet Mike Baggetta’s new recording with his potent trio veers daringly and compellingly from patient, elegiac freedom to searing, oozing sludge rock without the slightest hesitation or apology. Andrew Sean Greer’s Hapless Hero Is Back. Andrew Sean Greer (born 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer. The novel opens with Arthur Less, a life-weary Eeyore staring down the big 5-0 and feeling like the only gay man to have ever grown old. Less teases readers with a mysterious, impossibly omniscient narrator and an artfully structured plot. They have just released their self-titled debut studio album, Main Steam Stop Valve, on BIG EGO Records. Greer is a masterful author, and he brings along all his writerly chops from his past five books. He has earned accolades from the press that call this approach “…beguilingly atmospheric…” ( Time Out New York) and that “Baggetta’s music is quietly transgressive… Even when he plays a lot of notes, his playing can sound almost static, as though ideas were being snagged out of thin air.” (Hartford Courant)īaggetta’s most recent project, mssv, a post-genre power trio featuring the iconoclastic rhythm team of drummer Stephen Hodges and bassist Mike Watt. Mike Baggetta’s singular and very personal musical style seeks to blur the lines between composition and improvisation, while connecting a wide range of musical genres that influence him.

Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer