My Dear Mother king oliver managing editor of Modern Drummer

managing editor of Modern Drummer

The Chaos Machine is “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein)

stir in a little imagination

but they also want beauty

meddlesome best-friends

My Dear Mother king oliver managing editor of Modern DrummerThis fascinating collection of letters between sons and mothers offers an intimate and unexpected glimpse into the mind and heart of the artist. Here are letters by over fifty writers, painters, and musicians, from boyhood to manhood including Elvis Presley, Ezra Pound, E. B. White, Paul Cezanne, Henry James, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Richard Wagner, Victor Hugo, Jean Cocteau, Tennessee WIlliams, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.