365 short texts written close to midnight each day for a year; often amusing, sometimes melancholy, wholly personal but always challenging, thoughtprovoking and witty. Brian Morton is a Scottish writer and the author of several biographies including Miles Davis, Prince, Edgar Allen Poe and was co-author with the late Richard Cook of The Penguin Guide to Jazz
BRIAN MORTON is the author of four previous novels, including Starting Out in the Evening, which was a Salon favorite book of the year and was made into an acclaimed feature film, and A Window Across the River, which was a Book Club selection on the Today show. He is the director of the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence and teaches at New York University and the Bennington Writing Seminars.