Will Hermes is the creator of "Love Goes to Buildings on Fire." He is now crafting a e-book about Lou Reed. The scene recalls the restless spirits in George Saunders’s latest "Lincoln in the Bardo" (a novel Isbell adores and whose creator he’s now pleasant with), and the idle amaranths of Jim Jarmusch’s "Only Lovers Left Alive" (a film Isbell also admires).