Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
Thank you jonl for putting all this together.
  

    
There's a decided music presence here on the WELL and I had intended​
to ask John to say a word or two about his book "The Song Machine:​
Inside the Hit Factory." THE ATLANTIC said that the book "is a​
fascinating journey into the strange world of pop music. You'll​
never think about music the same way again."

But alas, time expired.
  

    
Thanks for this!
  

    
Thank you, John and Jon, for the space and for the insights!
  

    
Rose will be 17 next week. She’s a senior in high school and​
applying to colleges now. Princeton is kind of a reach for her. My​
son did go there and couldnt bear the finance bros so he transferred​
to Brown where he was much happier. Rose is looking at HBCUs as well​
as Northeast schools such as Vasser, Smith, and Wesleyan. We did go​
back to Haiti with her when she was about 6. Shes never met her​
birth mother - well, discounting her earliest months - and she didnt​
really want to back then. We would have gone back again and even​
thought about finding a school there for a year, but things are so​
bad now it would be foolish, we’d be kidnapped or worse. Very sad.

The Song Machine is a whole other topic! It can be read as​
baxkground to the reunion of Max Martin and Taylor Swift on her new​
album, though it doesnt have seemed to have yielded the magic that​
their first go round did, with songs like Shake It Off and Blank​
Space. 

Thanks to Jon and everyone who took part in the discussion. It was a​
lot of fun. John 
  

    
Thank YOU!