selected interviews + reviews
My siblings and I talk about our book The Kids are All Right in this interview with the late, great Diane Rehm.
Diane Rehm
Sunday, Nov 08 2009 • 10 a.m. (ET)
And Diane Sawyer introduced our book to GMA audiences in this taped segment
GOOD MORNING AMERICA
Oct 13, 2009
Bound Together by Love: Siblings Reunite After Separation
My band Stormshelter got reviewed one time
WEEDTEMPLE.
BLOGSPOT.COM
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Storm Shelter - Storm Shelter
Debut minuscule EP (or maybe even a cassingle?) from an all-female psychedelic garage rock (or, as Monofonus Press website describes their sound, "sludge pop") quartet Storm Shelter. Judging from the cover, featuring all members standing topless wearing jeans next to a pig head on a stick, their main inspirations might be the funeral folk imagery of Belgian weirdos Silvester Anfang and William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Three lo-fi, fuzzy songs with thumping, propulsive, somewhat doomy feel which fuse stonery guitar noodling with gently rising and falling vocals (often more than one at once), which sound like a twisted, shamanized take on 1960's pop hooks and ultra-catchy choruses. You'll find yourself stomping your feet and nodding your head to almost 3-minute long "Crones" in no time. Bleak and poppy at the same time. I really, REALLY hope these girls release more stuff soon. Highly recommended. Buy the cassette version for $5 only at Monofonus Press.
And the book I wrote
with my siblings
got reviewed a bunch
"A blisteringly funny, heart-scorching tale of remarkable kids shattered by tragedy and finally brought back together by love."
—People
"Well crafted and beautifully written, not to mention tremendously engrossing and moving. I couldn't put it down and came to love and respect every member of this singular family."
—O, the Oprah Magazine
"After the suspicious demise of dad and loss of mom to cancer, the orphaned Welch children were split up; now grown, and in rocking chorus, Diana, Liz, Amanda, and Dan Welch explain how in the world The Kids Are All Right."
—Vanity Fair
"This frank, wry, aching memoir…will leave readers musing over memory's slippery nature; the imperfect, enduring bonds of family; and the human heart's remarkable resilience."
—Booklist
"A brutally honest book that captures the journey of four people too young to face the challenged they nevertheless had to face."
—Kirkus