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Don’t you just love David Mitchell? Or his novels, at least? Ghostwritten, Number9Dream, Cloud Atlas – I love them all. And in the spring, we’ll be blessed with a fourth: Black Swan Green. If anybody has access to an advance copy of this – I’d really, really love one. The plot summary is as follows: […]

There’s an interesting piece about Kim Cooper’s Neutral Milk Hotel book, by Keith Dusenberry, in Real Detroit Weekly. You can read it here.

A review of Geoff Himes’ book in Baltimore magazine, by John Lewis: Geoffrey HimesBorn in the USA (Continuum) If you’ve ever longed for in-depth, book-length analysis of seminal pop recordings, Continuum’s 33 1/3 series is for you. Pairing expert writers with classic discs—from blockbusters such as Abba Gold and The Beatles Let It Be to

A few stragglers (with valid excuses) remain, but we’ve ended up with proposals for books about albums by the following people. The Flaming Lips win with four proposals, narrowly trumping Willie Nelson, U2, Steely Dan, GNR, and Van Morrison, who each have three. A huge thank you to everybody who submitted a pitch. We’ll do

No reason for any of us to be interested in the Smiths’ labyrinthine legal affairs, but this statement from Morrissey (copied from here) is morbidly fascinating…I end up feeling sorry for everybody involved in this mess. Statement from Morrissey: The latest statements from M Joyce on a BBC 6 radio interview as faithfully reported on

If you’re in Baltimore, and you love The Boss, you may want to attend this event: THE MUSIC OF BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN:FEATURING GEOFFREY HIMES AND BOB KANNENBERG Geoffrey Himes, the noted Baltimore music critic, and Bob Kannenberg, the leader of Baltimore’s roots-rock band the Barn Burners, celebrate “The Music of Bruce Springsteen” in a free afternoon

Matos is right, these do make good gifts.

I’m one of those hopeless people who can’t stand vegetables. Awful things! Best to leave them in the ground, where they belong. But parsnips, on the other hand – parsnips are a different story altogether. Wintry, crunchy, lovely things. Coat them in a little oil and sprinkle them with parmesan, put them in the oven…you

Whitney Matheson, USA Today’s pop-blogger, has Kim Cooper’s book in her suitcase. You have to scroll down a little. (Thanks to J. for spotting this one!) With about 36 hours to go, we currently have 72 proposals for new books in the series, and they’re arriving in my inbox roughly every ten minutes now. It’s

A handful of things that might be worth listening to, depending upon your musical proclivities… There’s a new Voxtrot song here. Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan do their Nancy and Lee thing rather well on “Ramblin’ Man” the first single off an album that comes out early in 2006. I think you can stream the