Yes Is The Answer: And Other Prog Rock Tales

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Progressive rock is maligned and misunderstood. Critics hate it. Hipsters scoff at it. A topographic journey into a 21st-century schizoid land of prog-lit, Yes Is the Answer is a pointed rebuke to the prog-haters and the first literary anthology devoted to the subgenre. Featuring acclaimed novelists Rick Moody, Wesley Stace, Seth Greenland, CharlesBock, and Joe Meno, as well as musicians Nathan Larson and Peter Case, "Yes Is the Answer" is the first book that dares to thoughtfully reclaim prog-rock as a subject worthy of serious consideration.

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Marc Weingarten is the author of The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Didion, Thompson, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution and Station to Station. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Details, The Village Voice, and many others. He is also the co-producer of the documentary God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, as well as television's The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. He plays drums and sings in the band California Wildebeest and lives in Malibu with his wife and two daughters. Tyson Cornell is the founder of Rare Bird Lit, a marketing and publicity firm. He has worked with over ten thousand authors, including John Updike, James Ellroy, Carol Channing, Chuck Palahniuk, John Waters, and many more. He has also toured extensively throughout the United States, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East playing music to audiences big and small. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the artist Alexandra Infante, and their two children, Solaris and Vesper. Rick Moody is the best-selling author of Garden State, The Ice Storm, The Diviners, On Celestial Music, The Black Veil, Demonology, and others. He lives in New York. Charles Bock is author of the debut novel Beautiful Children was selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year for 2008, and won the 2009 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives New York with his daughter. Seth Greenland is the Pushcart Prize-nominated author of The Bones, Shining City, and The Angry Buddhist. He is also a writer/producer of the Emmy-nominated HBO series Big Love. He lives with his wife and children in Los Angeles.