Archive for 'Non-fiction'
Jewish LPs
Last week National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” program featured a segment about a couple of guys who have spent years collecting old Jewish musical and spoken-word vinyl LPs from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and have written a book about them.
I’m sure their collection includes several albums by Mickey Katz. Katz was a clarinetist [...]
Posted: November 25th, 2008 under Non-fiction.
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Brideshead Re-re-revisited
Having read Hitchens on the film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, I then had another go at the novel, which I used to think over-written and absurd. I was especially uncharmed by the winsome Sebastian and his teddy bear. Evelyn Waugh’s prose is economic as a rule, sometimes to the point of sketchiness; in Brideshead Revisited [...]
Posted: October 8th, 2008 under Film, Non-fiction, Uncategorized.
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Fanzine Culture Alive And Well In Liverpool
Can I draw your attention, dear HP readers, to Liverpool’s wonderful Swine Magazine - a worthy online successor to irreverent ‘zines like The End and Boys Own. Whatever your opinion of football hooliganism (and as a workshy bourgeois southern fop with no real interest in football let alone fighting, I’m at very best ambivalent towards [...]
Posted: September 25th, 2008 under Music, Non-fiction.
Comments: 3
Good luck, Beatles!
Mr Brett and I are spending the day cataloguing our mountain of rock music books. Quite by chance, we found this paragraph in a 1964 Penguin Paperback called “Love Me Do: The Beatles Progress” by Michael Braun. In the introduction, it has a quite bizarre quote from the Daily Mirror (which, the book says, has “the biggest circulation [...]
Posted: August 23rd, 2008 under Biography, Books, Music.
Comments: 6