In ancient times, councils and other quasi-legislative bodies met to determine which books should be included in a canon — a set of books considered authoritative and binding for the practice of a community — and which should be excluded. […]
Does anybody really listen to James Taylor anymore? Like Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye – which was an eye-opener at age 15 but a yawning eye-closer at 50 – Taylor’s music conjures up a time and a place of youthful […]
In September, I wrote a feature for Publishers Weekly discussing many new memoirs — many written by women, and some which are just now being released. Carly Simon’s Boys in the Trees (Flatiron Books 2015) has sold over 77,000 copies — a […]
How do musicians’ memoirs really fare in a crowded market? As much as we might clamor to learn about the lurid details, the stories behind the songs, or the tragic or comic moments of the lives of our favorite artists, […]
Ah, it’s that time of year once again; we’re making our lists and counting one, two, three times the albums on which we’ve dropped the needle most often or the books whose pages we’ve turned the most frequently and to […]
