Latest Release
I Hear Your Music Playing Night and Day
Published in May 2021 by Cajun Mutt Press. Poetry and short prose about attempting the musical life and writing and love (lost and obtained) and dreams not quite made and celebrity encounters and being short on funds and bus rides and homes and, of course, cats. All the things that matter.
I Hear Your Music Playing Night and Day is “a great collection with a heaviness that sticks with you and yet a sense of levity and love, like hope, shining through…By the way, it reads very nicely while listening to Mad Season.”—Clint Brownlee, author of Pearl Jam’s Vs. (33 1/3, Volume 154)
About Me
Dave O’Leary
Author and Musician
Following the publication of Horse Bite in 2011, I began writing about Seattle music for the now defunct Seattle Subsonic. One night after seeing the ever so awesome Furniture Girls at the Sunset Tavern, there was a party afterward where singer Stacey Meyer told me she’d love to see a collection of my music writing in book form.
These days, I’m doing some research for my third book. It’ll be a novel-length version of Condoms On Christmas, which was a short story published by The Monarch Review in May of 2012. If things go as planned it should be finished later this year.
I continue to write about music for Northwest Music Scene, so if you play in a band here in Seattle, contact me, and I might come check you out.
“Horse Bite is a lyrical and introspective tale of one man’s attempt to carve out an artful life—written in prose that’s as lush as the Guinness Stout and dark roast coffee that seem to drip from every page.”
“Dave O’Leary writes the kind of books and stories I love to read—fans of Richard Ford and Kazuo Ishiguro would also be impressed with the thoughtful and accomplished prose.”