RIP Charlie Haden
“No one wants to be remembered most for what they did at 22.” But if at that tender age you get the chance to change musical history with the Ornette Coleman Ba...
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Peter Matthiessen In Paradise
Perhaps so. Rivendell Books, here in Montpelier, didn’t waste anytime putting this where it belongs, right out front. I think of Matthiessen late a...
Laurie Anderson Bids Farewell to Lou Reed
As it turned out, Lou and I didnt live far from each other in New York, and after the festival Lou suggested getting together. I think he liked it when I said, ...
When The Rope Breaks at a Hanging
In 1876, the courts of Dayton, Ohio, ordered the execution of a 19-year-old who had murdered an admired citizen. Things went well enough, for such an affair, un...
The Best New Thing I’ve Read in Weeks
This Anthony Lane homage to Elmore Leonard is not only the best thing I’ve read on Leonard. It’s the best new thing I’ve read in weeks. Every ...
Elmore Leonard Is Gone
What a loss. What spirit and humor and ear and humanity and comedy and, at times, excruciating tension. That scene toward the end of Killshot where the gun is o...
A Life Well-Lived & Remembered: John Wires 1922-2013 | Bryan Pfeiffer
A couple days ago my wee small town lost one of its most colorful, interesting, and widely inquisitive and experienced citizens, John Wires, who was 91. My good...