{"id":75331,"date":"2026-06-25T10:35:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=75331"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:02:42","slug":"early-reviews-are-in-book-launch-in-brooklyn-the-midnight-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2026\/06\/early-reviews-are-in-book-launch-in-brooklyn-the-midnight-special.html","title":{"rendered":"Early Reviews Are In<\/em><\/font>
Book Launch in Brooklyn: ‘The Midnight Special’ <\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u00a0The Observer<\/a><\/em>\u00a0says Colin Asher’s The Midnight Special<\/em> <\/a> will \u201ctransform\u201d the way you see art.\u00a0Booklist<\/em><\/a>\u00a0calls it \u201cmesmerizing.\u201d\u00a0Publisher\u2019s Weekly<\/a><\/em> likes it, and so does The Houston Press<\/a><\/em>; also Alex Gershman dives deep<\/a> into the book on his YouTube Channel; Maurice Chammah drills down on Ike White, one of the book’s featured musicians, in a discussion with\u00a0Asher at\u00a0The Marshall Project<\/a><\/em>; Henry Carrigan in his Reading Room column at No Depression<\/a> (about roots music & culture) calls it “riveting … judicious and incisive,” and\u00a0both Vol 1. Brooklyn<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Town & Country<\/a>\u00a0recommend it. \u00a0More reviews to come . . .<\/p>\n\n\n

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The book launch will feature The Cambia Collective<\/strong>, a band that performs music written by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists. The Collective has appeared in New York City at the Cutting Room, Cell Theater, DiMenna Center, and Abraham House, as well as in Westchester County at Green Ossining\u2019s Earth Day Festival and the Sing Sing Prison Museum\u2019s UNSUNG conversation series.<\/em> There will also be an open bar.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\u00a0The Observer\u00a0says Colin Asher’s new book will \u201ctransform the way you see art.\u00a0Booklist\u00a0calls it \u201cmesmerizing.\u201d\u00a0Publisher\u2019s Weekly likes it; Alex Gershman dives deep into the book on his YouTube Channel; Maurice Chammah drills down on Ike White, one of the book’s featured musicians, in a discussion with\u00a0Asher at\u00a0The Marshall Project. And more to come … <\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,18,4,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-music","11":"category-news","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/the-midnight-special-cover.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-jB1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75331"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75497,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75331\/revisions\/75497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}