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Just a quick one… This has come up a few times in the comments to the previous post – while we love reading the requests, shout-outs, wishlists, plugs, and Foxisms, they don’t influence the decision-making process in any way. (OK maybe they do, but only very very slightly!) The whole shebang would be an awful […]

As you’ll see below, we received quite a few proposals this time around. 597 by my count. (OK, by my computer’s count – I can’t actually go that high.) I haven’t even started reading these yet, but it’s tremendously exciting. A very big Thank You to everyone who sent in a proposal. Current thinking is

A very happy new year to everyone, from the wintry West Midlands of England. Just about to drive to Heathrow to catch a plane back to NYC – spent most of yesterday and this morning acknowledging receipt of all the proposals that were sent in. So, if you have not had an email of receipt

Tonight at midnight is your last chance to submit a proposal for the next batch of 33 1/3s! David has lined out all the specifics in this post, for anyone who may have missed it. And his original call for proposals, would you like to write a book? I would advise you to read the

I should be somewhere between NYC and Arkansas right now, but my flight was canceled last night, I decided to come into work an extra day, and the “Word of the Day” on the little screen in the elevator this morning was “schmaltz” (swear to God!), which can only mean one thing… Ann Powers at

I was doing some year-end inventory and saw that Carl Wilson’s book on Celine Dion has made a number of “Best of 2008” lists, including… The Telegraph – “The year’s most essential book on music.” New York Magazine – #4 in their list of the top 10 books of 2008, edging out Roberto Bolano’s 2666

It’ll be a little quiet around here the next couple of weeks – I’m off to the UK tomorrow morning for Christmas and New Year, and won’t be back online until Jan 6th. If you’re submitting a proposal, you won’t get any confirmation that you’ve received it until around that time. (Although, to repeat, any

Struggling to come up with the perfect gift for the movie lover in your life? I suspect we can be of assistance! Clive Young’s book Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind the Camera is just out – a genuinely entertaining and informative history of fan filmmaking, from the 1920s to the present day. In the words of

News of another wonderful honour for Carl Wilson’s book in the series about Celine Dion – it’s been named in the Top 10 Books of the Year by New York magazine. They have this to say about it: Wilson, a hip Toronto music critic, sets out to interrogate his deep hatred for Céline Dion. The

The 33 1/3 series wouldn’t exist without Oliver Postgate. I can’t really explain why, but it’s true. He died yesterday in England, at the age of 83. If you grew up outside of the U.K, it’s entirely possible that you have no idea who this man was. Well, he created some of the most magical