“The recorded music business has serious trouble, but concert business is not like that,” says Gary Bongiovanni, editor in chief of the concert trade magazine Pollstar. “It continues to be healthy. Revenues have gone up every year. I don’t think anyone’s worried about the live music going away at all. In the artist’s mind, the real bread and butter comes from touring. Twenty years ago you toured to sell records; now you tour to make money, and that’s healthy for the artists.”

Last Breath is one of the short stories from Joe Hill's book 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS, which received the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Guild Award for best collection. It's published by Harper Collins. Be sure to see the Faces video of Joe Hill here at NewEngland.com

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch writes: "The Last Days of Dogtown," serves as a eulogy for a town and its people but also for a way of life. Set in the early 1800s, the book is loosely based on a true story of a hardscrabble community just getting by on a particularly rocky patch of land on Cape Ann, Mass. The book is haunting, partly because of Diamant's lyrical language and partly because of the townspeople that she creates. Here are widows (some thought to be witches), orphans, spinsters, drunks, hussies and free people of color. Every last one is a disenfranchised soul with a troubled - or troublesome - past.