Facing Off With Angels + Spirits

Bill Callahan sings of fatherhood, his parents, marriage, and "his real feelings about his real life" at Philadelphia Record Exchange.

By: Tyler Maxwell

Outlets: Midbrow

Published: March 30, 2026

Words: 712

Last Updated: 2 months, 1 week ago

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Bill Callahan
Philadelphia Record Exchange
1524 Frankford Ave.
Philadelphia
March 29, 2026

Here is the word from a subatomic physicist: “Everything that has already happened is particles, everything in the future is waves... The particles are broken; the waves are translucent, laving, roiling with beauty like sharks. The present is the wave that explodes over my head, flinging the air with particles."
(Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)

it’s only the sea, with its incomparable ache,
that may categorically assert
the river is a …

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