Reddit reviews Universal Harvester: A Novel

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> Mountain Goats Update
> October 24, 2016
>
> Welcome once again to the Mountain Goats Almanac and Star Chart, which
> annexes Peter Hughes Presents: Caring for you Peugeot and the
> Philadelphia Sandwich Guide Monthly. Once again, we'll be bringing you
> all the latest in stuff about the Mountain Goats, and also
> accurately foretelling somebody's future, possibly yours.
>
> The Present. THANK YOU ALL for a spectacular tour of the midwest -- we
> had a total blast, we played in a barn, I bought used vinyl in, like, seven
> different cities. I have so much fun on what they call "off-cycle" tours --
> tours where there isn't a new album to bang the drum about and we can just
> open the set with a song from a self-released 12" that came out in 2008. We
> are so grateful for the openness and kindness with which you all treat us; I
> try to avoid sounding maudlin, but honestly, we are mindful of how good
> we've got it -- it is a subject of gratitude and wonder for us. When I say
> "thanks," it comes from my heart.
>
> NEXT UP is a week of shows in Colorado, including the first-ever reading
> from the forthcoming [Universal Harvester](https://www.amazon.com/Unive
> rsal-Harvester-Novel-John-Darnielle/dp/0374282102), which I have been aching
> to share since I got to chapter 3 in the writing a couple of years back and
> thought "ooh that's kind of scary I can't wait to read from this one." M
> usically, the Colorado shows are John and Peter, aka the old-school
> plug- and-play get-religion tent-revival style. What will we play? That
> would be telling, but the plan is to open the sets with a song I wrote in I
> think 1994 but never released. There's some live versions of it from back in
> the day on the internet I'm pretty sure but I haven't played it in forever.
> Will there be points for guessing right? Yes! Big points! But only on the
> first night of the tour.
>
> AFTER THOSE SHOWS, we're closing out the year with a couple of hometown
> barnburners, after which, we will have to rebuild the barn, which will
> occupy us through January. Here's the full calendar:
>
> 10/25 - eTown Hall (duo performance) - Boulder, CO (SOLD OUT)
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> 10/26 - Downtown Artery (duo performance) - Fort Collins, CO
>
> 10/27 - Hi-Dive (duo performance) - Denver, CO (SOLD OUT)
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> 10/29 - Hi-Dive (duo performance) - Denver, CO (SOLD OUT)
>
> 11/12 - Jam Room Music Festival - Columbia, SC
>
> 12/2 - The Pinhook - Durham, NC (SOLD OUT)
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> 12/3 - The Pinhook - Durham, NC (SOLD OUT)
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> 12/4 - Cat's Cradle Back Room - Carrboro, NC (SOLD OUT)
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> 12/5 - Cat's Cradle Back Room - Carrboro, NC (SOLD OUT)
>
> The Future. Just announced and now on sale: the Universal Harvester
> book tour, which has no proper tour name because book tours usually just
> take the name of the book. If anybody, like me, is really into tour names,
> maybe we can think of this one as the Make Straight the Path for the
> Universal Harvester tour. Waiting for a book to be published is
> excruciating: I have been so anxious to share this book with you. I'll be
> reading and sometimes having conversations with dear friends onstage and/or
> doing question-an d-answers, and of course signing books -- tickets at the
> links:
>
> 2/6/17 -- Brooklyn, NY
> St. Joseph's College, presented by Greenlight Bookstore
> 7:30 p.m.
> Tickets and more information...
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> 2/7/17 -- New York, NY
> Leonard Nimoy Thalia theatre at Symphony Space
> 7:30 p.m.
> Tickets and more information...
>
> 2/8/17 -- Cambridge, MA
> Brattle Theatre, presented by Harvard Book Store
> 6:00 p.m.
> [Tickets and more information...](http://www.harvard.com/eve= nt/john_darnielle/)
>
> 2/9/17 -- Washington, D.C.
> Politics and Prose Bookstore
> 7:00 p.m.
> More information...
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> 2/13/17 -- Durham, NC
> Motorco Music Hall, presented by The Regulator Bookshop
> 7:30 p.m.
> Tickets and more information...
>
> 2/15/17 -- Raleigh, NC
> Quail Ridge Books
> 7:00 p.m.
> More information...
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> 2/20/17 -- Seattle, WA
> Town Hall Seattle, with The Elliott Bay Book Company
> 7:30 p.m.
>
> 2/21/17 -- Portland, OR
> Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
> 7:00 p.m.
> More information...
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> 2/22/17 -- San Francisco, CA
> The Booksmith
> 7:30 p.m.
> More information...
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> 2/23/17 -- Los Angeles, CA
> Skylight Books
> 7:30 p.m.
> More information...
>
> 2/25/17 -- Austin, TX
> BookPeople 6:00 p.m.
> More information...
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> 2/27/17 -- Iowa City, IA
> Prairie Lights
> 7:00 p.m.
> More information...
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> 2/28/17 -- Ames, IA
> Ames Public Library, with the Iowa State University Book Store
> 6:30 p.m.
> More information...
>
> 3/1/17 -- Chicago, IL
> Lincoln Hall, presented by Unabridged Bookstore
> 7:00 p.m.
> Tickets and more information...
>
>
>
> The Unknown. The bleedthrough between "the unknown" and "the stuff I'm
> not ready to talk about because I'm superstitious" is honestly pretty high,
> I can't lie. But let me put it this way: our last album was Beat the
> Champ, released in 2015. It's the end of 2016 now. Does anybody really
> believe I have the discipline to not write songs? I write songs, it's what I
> do. We hit the studio when we can. I will have a great deal more to say
> about this by mid-spring at latest, I think. Besides all that:
>
> there's a new podcast idea that will probably beat the two I was
> imagining before to the airwaves, yes I know they're not technically
> airwaves but work with me here
>
> journeys to far-off lands! really really far-off lands, from the stand
> point of the continental United States!
>
> shall I renew my occasional threat to finish painting / decorating the 200+
> remaining copies of Come, Come to the Sunset Tree that're down there in
> the basement and put them up in the webstore? Sure, why not, as we are
> still in the terrain of...__the unknown.__
>
> This edition's notebook page is a cue-sheet from the Tallahassee* session
> in Cassadaga back in October of 2001. We didn't own a printer, so Lalitree
> printed this out for me at her workplace. Scandalous! I think that
> session was the only time this song's been played in the tuning I wrote it
> in, we play it in standard tuning now. Why? Well, see how opaque my
> instructions to myself are there at the end: by the time I get done reading
> them, I'm more confused than I was at the outset. I'm a better guitarist now
> and could just write down the tuning and probably figure it out from there.
> Progress! I remember recording this one because 1) I ended up sitting on the
> floor to play it, which I have often done since with songs that are special
> to me and 2) somebody, not naming names, entered the room while I was
> tracking, and you can totally hear the door creak, but I knew it was the
> take I wanted to keep, so the creaking door stayed and actually sounds kinda
> wicked.
>
> Thanks for reading! And now, as we might have said if we were cowboy
> evangelists in the 19th Century: "See you in Colorado!" -jd
>
> The Mountain Goats Almanac and Star Chart by MountainGoats
> 1645 E 6th Street Austin, USA

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If you poke around on Tumblr you can see the cue-sheet uploaded in places, e.g. here.