Josh Ritter: Musician, Author, Kindle Lover
May 4th, 2010 admin
Musician (and soon-to-be author) Josh Ritter has a new album, So the World Runs Away , out today. Ritter's song lyrics have been hailed by Stephen King for “the most exuberant outburst of energy since Bob Dylan's “A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall,” and Dennis Lehane is also a fan, using one of Josh's lyrics as the intro to his book The Given Day . Ritter is a huge fan of his Kindle. We caught up with him on the road in Europe and he let us know the last several titles he's been reading on his Kindle: Messages from the Hollow Earth , Dianne Robbins I woke up in a hotel near St. Louis one morning wanting to learn about caves. After searching the Kindle store, I found…
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