I always had a bit of an obsession with Austrian culture, its musical part being one being of the most importance to me (Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Mahler, Schoenberg, Webern, Berg), but the literary achievements coming out of this small country […]
I always had a bit of an obsession with Austrian culture, its musical part being one being of the most importance to me (Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Mahler, Schoenberg, Webern, Berg), but the literary achievements coming out of this small country […]
A dark British comedy from 2000 that slipped through my net, I just discovered it now!! Refreshingly sinister and of course non PC (in 2000 one could still make a joke without being vetted by the thought-police) it was written […]
My favorite French writer has been for many years Claude Simon, whose books I am just re-reading now. A second reading makes it much easier to enjoy this difficult author, who fascinated me from the first book I read of […]
A refreshing and illuminating version of Schumann’s piano concerto by the Freiburger Barockorchester and Pablo Heras Casado and Alexander Melnikov. The vibrant sound of the orchestra and the delicacy of the fortepiano are simply wonderful!
A forgotten writer: Tom Kromer. (1906-1969) Kromer was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia. He wrote his novel after five years of living as a hobo, riding trains and traveling across the United States. He was mostly living as a […]
It is always a great pleasure to discover a forgotten voice of the past. I came across the British composer William Baines, whose life was tragically cut short at the age of 23. Yorkshire born he wrote around 150 works, […]
One of my all-time favourite French movies, this 192-minute film by Jaques Rivette is a story about story-telling. It centers on the fanciful world of two women literally lost in the stories they tell each other. Celine (Juliet Berto) and Julie (Dominique Labourer) go […]
David Foster Wallace ( February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008 ) was one of the most gifted writers of his generation. He wrote Infinite Jest (a huge 1,200-page magnum opus) in the early 1990’s — while in his early […]
