The Criterion Collection releases two classic Westerns directed by Delmer Daves this week, Jubal and 3:10 to Yuma , which both star Glenn Ford. Cloud Atlas , the film adaptation of David Mitchell's novel of the same name, hits stores tomorrow. Beware of Mr. Baker is a documentary that profiles Cream and Blind Faith drummer Ginger Baker. Television offerings include Dexter: The Seventh Season [...]
All Things Considered interviews James Salter about his new novel All That Is . On his character's observation that the 'power of the novel in the nation's culture has weakened' "I guess I believe it. My feelings are probably more sentimental than rational. The culture is what it is. It reforms itself, it is freshened by certain things, it is polluted by other things, and it continually revives and presents itself. So it's an unfortunate thing for a certain kind of novelist, or maybe for an [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Adam Arcuragi : free and legal A Short Compilation of Songs EP [mp3] Cheyenne Mize : free and legal NoiseTrade Sampler EP [mp3] The Coyote Affair [...]
A list of the past week's Largehearted Boy features: Book Notes : (authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates to their book) Bill Loehfelm for his novel The Devil in Her Way Cate Lineberry for her book The Secret Rescue Elanor Dymott for her novel Every Contact Leaves a Trace Joanna Hershon for [...]
Since today is Mother's Day, this week's prizes are two of the year's finest literary explorations of motherhood, Jennifer Gilmore's The Mothers and Monica Drake's The Stud Book . For a chance at winning these novels and a $100 Threadless gift certificate, share your favorite fictional mother from pop culture (books, television, film, or theater). My choice: Rosa Achmetowna from Alina Brodky's novel The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine , one of the most fascinating mothers ever portrayed. [...]
The Observer profiles author James salter. Who is James Salter? It may be that you have never heard of him. Salter is not famous the way Philip Roth and John Updike are famous, nor half so prolific; his reputation rests on just two collections of short stories, five (now six) novels and a memoir, Burning the Days. But he is, nevertheless, the kind of American writer who is sometimes called great: a stylist, a purist, a guy who really socks it to you, however elegantly. His books, which are about valour and women and [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Every Sunday, Largehearted Boy shares a collection of covers of Radiohead songs. Today's songs were all originally performed by Big Star. Check out the entire list of cover song posts at Largehearted Boy. Camera : "Idioteque (Radiohead [...]
WFPL reports that people in Louisville are searching for the inspiration behind Daisy Buchanan's house in The Great Gatsby . Hypebot contributors explain how music blogging has changed over the years. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks to Weekend Edition about her new novel Americanah . The Vancouver Sun profiles the Icelandic indie folk band Of Monsters and [...]
WFPL reports that people in Louisville are searching for the inspiration behind Daisy Buchanan's house in The Great Gatsby . Hypebot contributors explain how music blogging has changed over the years. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks to Weekend Edition about her new novel Americanah . The Vancouver Sun profiles the Icelandic indie folk band Of Monsters and [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Deep Dark Woods : 2013-04-20, Zurich [mp3,ogg,flac] The Deep Dark Woods: "Diamond Joe" [mp3] Josh Ritter : 2013-04-20, St. Louis [mp3,ogg,flac] Josh Ritter: "New Lover" [mp3] [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Joanna Hershon's A Dual Inheritance is a sweeping and impressive character-driven novel, one that follows a compelling and vividly drawn love [...]
Fresh Air interviews Claire Messud about her new novel The Woman Upstairs . "As a reader since very early I have found myself drawn to rants," she tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "I was in my senior year of high school when I read Notes From Underground by Dostoyevksy and it was an exhilarating discovery. I hadn't known up until that moment that fiction could be like that. Fiction could say these things, could be unseemly, could be unsettling and distressing in that particular way, that immediate and urgent [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Anatomy of Frank : "Bill Murray" [mp3] from Pangaea (out July 16th) German Error Message : "There's a Place" [mp3] Graham MacRae [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Bill Loehfelm's The Devil in Her Way sees his heroine from The Devil She Knows move from Staten Island [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Michael Zapruder's Pink Thunder is many things, including a modern poetry anthology, a music album, and grand experiment. Zapruder set many [...]
Bookworm interviews author Margaret Atwood. Watch a video for the National's "Sea of Love." The band did an interview with the Reddit community. Huffington Post shares an excerpt (and seven cocktail recipes) from Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist . Pitchfork profiles the band Vampire Weekend. [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Bridges and Powerlines : "Ghosts of a Different Dream (Guided By Voices cover)" [mp3] Cillie Barnes : "Brainwash" [mp3] from Happy Valley Dark for Dark : "Sweetwater" [mp3] [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Cate Lineberry's The Secret Rescue offers an often overlooked perspective of World War II, through the eyes of nurses and medics. [...]
In the Largehearted Word series, the staff of Brooklyn's WORD bookstore highlights several new books released this week. WORD is an independent neighborhood bookstore in Greenpoint, the northernmost neighborhood of Brooklyn, that recently celebrated its sixth anniversary. Our primary goal is to be whatever our community needs us to be, which currently means carrying a lot of paperback fiction (especially classics), cookbooks, board books, and absurdly cute cards and stationery. In addition, we're fiends for a good event, from the classic author reading and Q&A to potlucks and [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Sean Murphy's graphic novel Punk Rock Jesus vividly explores themes of religion, politics and modern culture with a unique premise: the [...]
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