A very active October is set into motion with Seattle writer and DJ Kurt B. Reigley holding forth here for his look-at-what-we-have-here rumination on the new place of the old, United States of Americana: Backyard Chickens, Burlesque Beauties, & Handmade Bitters: A Field Guide to the New American Roots Movement (Harper). "Encompassing, engaging, and definitive, United States of America finds the through-line that connects such seemingly disparate fashions ... to reveal the yearning for simpler times at their heart. Reighley shows us the Americana movement from the inside, not just as a conservative reaction to modern times, but as a progressive response to a popular culture that's increasingly unsustainable." - John Roderick, from the Long Winters. "Reighley's book is your magical wardrobe into the Narnia of Americana ... Always fun, fully informed, astutely researched and extremely generous in scope, United States of Americana is the lexicon of a laudable way of life." - Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding).