{"id":7594,"date":"2026-11-03T12:51:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/?p=7594"},"modified":"2026-11-03T12:51:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:51:34","slug":"enchanted-glasses-a-novel-in-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/?p=7594","title":{"rendered":"Enchanted Glasses &#8211; A Novel in Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"max-width:640px;margin:0 auto;font-size:18px;line-height:1.65;\">\n\n  <div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/enchanted-glasses-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Enchanted Glasses cover\" style=\"max-width:300px;width:100%;box-shadow:0 8px 28px rgba(0,0,0,.28);border-radius:3px;\">\n    <h2 style=\"margin:1em 0 .1em;\">Enchanted Glasses<\/h2>\n    <p style=\"margin:0;font-style:italic;\">A Novel in Songs<\/p>\n    <p style=\"margin:.4em 0 1.6em;letter-spacing:.12em;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:15px;\">Steve Keith<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <p>In October 1957, a three-year-old boy is carried out into his backyard in Malden, Massachusetts, to watch Sputnik cross the sky. Sixty-eight years later, his granddaughter sets up his old telescope in a dark valley in the Berkshires.<\/p>\n  <p>Between those two nights is the life of Leo Marsh: engineer, songwriter, husband, father, grandfather, and a man who falls down and keeps getting back up.<\/p>\n  <p><em>Enchanted Glasses<\/em> is a novel told through the twenty-six songs Leo writes along the way, and you can listen to every one of them as you read.<\/p>\n\n  <blockquote style=\"margin:1.6em 0;padding:.2em 0 .2em 1em;border-left:3px solid #f0cf7a;font-style:italic;\">\n    \u201cThe first thing Leo Marsh ever remembered was being lifted out of bed in the dark.\u201d\n  <\/blockquote>\n\n  <h3 style=\"margin-top:1.6em;\">Read the book<\/h3>\n  <p style=\"text-align:center;margin:1em 0;\">\n    <a href=\"\/enchanted-glasses\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;padding:.75em 1.6em;background:#141a3a;color:#f0cf7a;text-decoration:none;border-radius:6px;font-weight:bold;\">Read it online, with the music<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <ul>\n    <li><strong>Online:<\/strong> best on a computer or a tablet turned sideways. The songs and videos play beside the story as you read.<\/li>\n    <li><strong><a href=\"\/enchanted-glasses\/enchanted-glasses.epub\" download>E-book (EPUB)<\/a>:<\/strong> for Apple Books, Kindle and most e-readers. Kindle readers can send it with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/sendtokindle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Send to Kindle<\/a>.<\/li>\n    <li><strong><a href=\"\/enchanted-glasses\/enchanted-glasses.pdf\">PDF<\/a>:<\/strong> laid out like a printed book, for reading or printing.<\/li>\n  <\/ul>\n\n  <h3 style=\"margin-top:1.6em;\">The music<\/h3>\n  <p>The songs come from three albums, <em>Horse Latitudes<\/em>, <em>A Second Passed<\/em> and <em>Charm<\/em>, all available on <a href=\"https:\/\/stevekeith1.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n  <h3 style=\"margin-top:1.6em;\">About the author<\/h3>\n  <p>Steve Keith played bass in the Boston band Private Lightning, whose album came out on A&amp;M Records in 1980. He lives in Peabody, Massachusetts, with his wife, Patty, and their dog, Rudy. <em>Enchanted Glasses<\/em> is his first novel.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<script>\nvar zbPregResult = '0';\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enchanted Glasses A Novel in Songs Steve Keith In October 1957, a three-year-old boy is carried out into his backyard in Malden, Massachusetts, to watch Sputnik cross the sky. Sixty-eight years later, his granddaughter sets up his old telescope in a dark valley in the Berkshires. 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