Hidden Wheel, by Michael T. Fournier (188 pages, Three Rooms Press, 978-0-9835813-1-4, 2011) When an art scene takes root in a pop-up colony called Freedom Springs, micro-visionary Ben Wilfork promotes the giant, autobiographical 600 square foot canvases of former chess prodigy and high end dominatrix Rhonda Barrett using his Hidden Wheel as a bridge to the future before pre-Datastrophe history completes itself. "Don't be surprised if, upon fi nishing this book, you long for an art form you've never encountered." -Selah Saterstrom; author of The Pink Institution Michael T. Fournier's book-length discussion of the Minutemen's 1984 album "Double Nickels On The Dime" is the critically-acclaimed 45th installment of Continuum Press's "33 1/3" series. He has taught literature and punk rock history at Emerson College, Tufts University and University of Maine.
Michael T. Fournier is a writer/critic/musician living in Western Massachusetts.
He is the editor of Cabidlo Quarterly, a broadsheet literary journal.
His writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix, Chunklet, Oxford American, Pennsylvania English, Stolen Island Review, Talking River and Vice.
He plays drums in Dead Trend.
Regular updates are available at michaeltfournier.tumblr.com.
