#jennifer acker

Track Four is Not About You by L.M. Bennett (4th) Bishop left without a word. Shiloh never knew why. Four years later, neither of them has recovered. Now Bishop’s album is falling apart, and the only producer who understands her sound is the ex she ghosted. Shiloh doesn’t do chaos, second chances, or Bishop. But when she hears that dying demo, something cracks. Because the raw honesty on that…

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from Jennifer Acker’s piece in The Washington Post, “My husband read to me while I was sick. It changed our marriage.”

While we're talking about the power of the human voice, how it invites us and holds us, consider Jennifer Acker's experience with her husband's voice.  

Reading to me, reading stories I had chosen because I needed to hear them, was an intimate act of devotion. It not only helped me with my work, but also allowed me to revel in a side of him I rarely observed. Here were moments both vulnerable and so revealing they proved with a force beyond all reason that I wanted him, all of him, and to be near him always.