Authors as Songwriters
by John F. Baker -- Publishers Weekly, 1/26/2004
An unusual anthology that will star a number of prominent authors as lyricists for a "lit rock" group was signed by Brooklyn's small Soft Skull Press. It's called As Smart as We Are, after a line in one of the songs, and will offer work by 17 writers, including such marquee names as Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Dave Eggers, A.M. Homes, Jonathan Lethem, Neil Gaiman and Rick Moody, among others. They have all written for a Brooklyn-based group called One Ring Zero, which has become a kind of house band for McSweeney's Publishing, and their work will appear along with a CD of their songs. The project was signed by Soft Skull publisher Richard Eoin Nash, for publication in May.
