"Captures Our Culture Now" - NY Times On Odie Lindsey's Debut Book

As momentum builds for Odie Lindsey’s debut book ‘We Come To Our Senses’ – which has earned praise everywhere from the Nashville Scene (“voice for a generation”) to yesterday’s New York Times (“the book captures our culture now, its pop references flaring, familiar and embarrassing: a counterpunch to every ad you watch”) - the Gulf War combat veteran/former hardcore kid is confirmed to moderate a panel discussion at Americana Fest in Nashville next month. ‘Songwriters and Scribes: Storytelling in Song and Fiction’ will take place on September 22nd at 2:30pm CT, more info on location and panelists coming soon.

Full NY Times review: http://nyti.ms/2bAgZqy

Lindsey’s writing explores facets of the American veteran experience that stories like ‘American Sniper’ or ‘The Hurt Locker’ don’t touch. ‘We Come To Our Senses’ examines those already marginalized and by society – often female and/or LGBT - come to grips with returning home from far-off war zones into situations that can seem just as bad.

Excerpts from 'We All Come To Our Senses' have appeared in the Iowa Review, Guernica, LitHub + more, earlier this week was praised by The Rumpus as “a dark, sometimes funny, and certainly complex collection that tackles important subjects from unexpected angles,” and Odie was also recently the subject of a feature in his hometown newspaper, The Tennesean. Read that here: http://tnne.ws/2bbEOEf 

Lindsey claims he learned how to construct a narrative from listening to Willie Nelson's 'Red Headed Stranger, and is currently working on his first novel.