How bad does a negative review sting, how much does it get beneath the skin? it’s been eight years since Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude was reviewed in The New Republic… 6 / Read more »
While on a summer road-trip to promote his debut novel How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, Christopher Boucher and his wife Lisa Bastoni wrote this beautiful duet as a theme-song… 1 / Read more »
We are pleased as punch that the music website Pitchfork selected Dave Tompkins’ How to Wreck a Nice Beach (which we co-published with Stop Smiling) as one of its “60… Read more »
At The Rumpus Steve Almond writes about the lasting influence, political power, and musical genius of Gil Scott-Heron who died on Friday: This isn’t his obituary. An obituary would require… 1 / Read more »
New York rock star and icon of 80s- and 90s-era “alternative music” Suzanne Vega has written a play about Carson McCullers that’s about to go up in New York. “I… Read more »
Yesterday David Ulin reminded us why we love Texas. Which is nice, since some other people have been working hard to make us forget we loved it in the first… Read more »
Bob Dylan fans wondering what’s taking him so damn long to complete the follow-up to Chronicles: Volume One received something of an answer this week. It appears that, according to… 4 / Read more »
“John Donne was the Cole Porter of his day, a writer of subtle popular songs rather than just the author of cerebral poetry, according to new research,” says a Times… Read more »