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Escaping the bright lights
Good to see John Updike’s Q&A with the Paris Review back in circulation on Twitter. I’ve always loved this part: INTERVIEWER You seem to shun literary society. Why? UPDIKE I don’t, do I? Here I am, talking to you. In leaving … Continue reading
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Turntable
“Live in Brittany”, the new album by The Celtic Fiddle Festival. TradConnect has a review.
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Bums on seats
The Rolling Stones and Joe Public: from Robert Greenfield’s oral biography of pioneering rock promoter Bill Graham.
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The teenager who triggered Kristallnacht
The LA Times reviews a biography of Herschel Grynszpan, the young Polish Jew whose shooting of a German official became the pretext for a night of terror: The assassin fully expected to be hailed as a hero among Jews around the … Continue reading
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Less is more
Harry Connick Jr does his best to teach “American Idol” contestants how to sing standards. But were they listening? [Via jumokefashola]
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Notebook
What Campbell and his five men endured beggars belief, even in the steely annals of Antarctic hardship. They had been out from February 1911 until November 1913… In January 1912 they were picked up by the Terra Nova on her … Continue reading
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Leonard Cohen via Nina & Meshell
Meshell Ndegeocello’s Nina Simone-inspired residency at Ronnie Scott’s ends tonight. I hope she comes back soon. Here she is in Paris earlier this year, performing “Suzanne”. (Compare and contrast with Nina S’s take on the same song.)
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An American Downton? No thanks…
Ah, the pathos of dying aristocracies. William Deresiewicz understands why Julian Fellowes’ period drama has been a hit, but he’s not sure that talk of a US version is all that wise: I doubt that it will catch; Americans are much less … Continue reading
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