In this issue we chat with Minneapolis singer/songwriter Matt Jennings in the “Shaking the Muse,” section, give you lots of new fiction and poetry, including our first R. Meltzer challenge winners, Julia Klatt and Alex Stollis, and three new songs for your inspiration. In case that’s not enough, we’ve recently added the Summer 2007 and Fall 2007 issues to the “Shook” page. Just be sur
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So your trusty editors have done it again. I know, I know, many thought shaking like a mountain was going to be one of those really great one-hit-wonders. You know, like A-ha, Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark or Timbuk 3. Ha! It seems your editors are not so easily, uh, shaken.While this issue offers another serving of literary joy and happiness for you, our readers, it comes with a note of sad...
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It’s hard to believe that our little baby hatched just a few short months ago. But here it is, walking on its own two feet ... and look at how fast she’s growing.This past January, the germ for shaking like a mountain was planted. Shortly after, and with the help of a certain Known Human, we began to design our online home, albeit still not entirely sure as to what we were getting ourselves in
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I'm still pretty pissed about Molly Ringwald running off with that rich asshole Andrew McCarthy when she clearly should have stayed with Duckie. Either way, damn this song is good. I don't care what you say.
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Shaking Like a Mountain, an online literary journal about contemporary music, is seeking poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction inspired by the soundtrack of our lives. In a piece called “The Music of Prose,” Richard Goodman wrote recently, “At the highest level, the sound a writer makes on the page is music.” No argument. But the inverse may be true as well. Shaking Like a Mountain is p
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When my homey wayne and I set out to start a literary magazine, it was only inevitable that music would play a large part in it. Many of our best-known writers are lovers of music as well. Wasn't it our beloved Nick Hornby who once said that the reason he writes is because he can't make music. Shit, even Stephen King plays the guitar in a band. So does Rick Moody. Shel Silverstein anyone? An...
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About a week ago, I got the opportunity to see Mason Jennings at the Chameleon Club in Lancaster, PA. I'd been trying to catch one of his shows for the past three years. While Mason has been playing all but nonstop for close to ten years, East Coast shows have been few and far between. Last year, Jennings signed to a major label and the fans howled in disgust, as they tend to do. But those who ...
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