Lit Riffs (37 page)

MATTHEW MIELE created and developed the idea for
Lit Riffs
in order to reinvent the musical experience through literature. While a literary agent with John Hawkins & Associates, Inc., he handpicked the hippest and most celebrated storytellers of our time to imaginatively compose stories inspired by songs.

Prior to his publishing career, Miele wrote and directed the feature film
Everything’s Jake
—starring Ernie Hudson, Graeme Malcolm, Debbie Allen, Robin Givens, and the late, great Lou Rawls—and was a sound designer/music composer for film and television.

Lit Riffs, Volume 2
, also edited by Miele, is coming soon from MTV Books.

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Ironically, about fifteen years after this incident, Mark was hired as an engineer by the Raytheon Corporation and has devoted his professional life to developing high-tech ordnance for the U.S. military.