Art or Die: Micah Schnabel's "Humble Narrators" from Holden Caulfield to Henry
Micah Schnabel For those of us who have followed the career of Micah Schnabel and his band Two Cow Garage, a novel should should come as no surprise. At least since Speaking in Cursive (2008), Schnabel has referenced the products and process of his own and others' writing. Our "Humble narrator" (opening track) tells us: If it lights you up And if it turns you on I will sing all to you your favorite songs Songs, like novels, have narrators that may not correspond exactly with the author's point of view, but they can offer to both the writer and listener a unique view of the world. Sometimes, we can discern the dissonance between them through the words placed in the characters' and narrators' mouth These can be used in both songs and novels, but novels allow richer characters with nuanced perspectives. This is not to say that novels are somehow superior to songs. Indeed, in our times, one could argue that the delivery of a carefully wrought im