I’ve been known to relish the sound of my own voice, so it was only a matter of time before I convinced someone to let me record an audiobook.  After a suitable amount of nagging, the fine folks at The Monarch Review arranged for Seattle music mainstay Robb Benson to lend me his studio for a couple months.  What you see here is the result: a collection of four fictional narrative essays in the style of popular celebrity interest pieces.  They’re 100% made up, of course.  Why this particular subject matter?  It could be because real life is far more fantastic than anything I could invent from scratch.  It could be because I can’t get over Justin Bieber’s 2011-era hair.  And it could be because we as a society have a lot to learn from the individuals we deify.   

These four pieces are selections from my upcoming collection, Stories from the Collective Consciousness, due out from The Monarch later this year.  You’ll start out with Bieber, who may or may not have developed a certain facility at using the Force.  Then, you’ll proceed down the introspective rabbit holes that are a manic Paul Giamatti and a melancholic Robert del Naja before taking a tour down memory lane with resurrected Mother Love Bone frontman Andy Wood.

I hope you dig it.

Zac