Okay so I google myself occasionally.& for some reason, you can read my review of Doctrine of Affections on this strange website.
"I changed my mind about this book. After reading, in order, the first 10 of Headrick's 11 musically- themed short stories, I was lulled into feeling I had this writer figured out. Although each story occupies disparate moments in time and space - from a melancholic guitarist in Post-Napoleonic Paris to a jazz- loving Engineering student at UBC - each tale is shrouded in tonal sameness, evoking a similar- feeling longing for fidelity to a higher truth. But it was the last story, the one told by a version of the author himself, that shook me out of my stupor and made me pay attention...." Read more.Then, if you're keen, you can check out Mr. Headrick's blog.
