Sad Subject Matter: An Opening
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is to sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway The same thing could be said about all forms of art. Great art seems to share that unique capacity to educe human emotion, particularly those that are rather sorrowful, such as Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie, Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List or Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea. Peter Silberman of The Antlers, a band based in Brooklyn, certainly aligns his mus