• Music

    Record Stores

    Why a Small-Town Record Store in Rural Pennsylvania Was My First Library

    Jolene McIlwain on Rural America, Songwriting, and Oral Storytelling

     
    By Jolene McIlwain  May 18, 2023
    Music history

    How Nelson Mandela Became a Pop-Cultural Icon Through Music

    By Jonny Steinberg  May 11, 2023
    Songwriting

    Of Songs and Stories: What Bruce Springsteen Learned From Flannery O’Connor

    By Warren Zanes  May 10, 2023
    The Hub

    Neil Gaiman has an album coming out!

    By Jonny Diamond  April 27, 2023
    Mothers

    Lucinda Williams Recalls the Turbulence of Growing Up With a Sick Mother

    By Lucinda Williams  April 26, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Sam Lee on the Musical Kinship Between Folk Music and Birdsong

    By Emergence Magazine  April 24, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Autofiction

    Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu on Sex as Escape, Being a Jerk, and “Alcohol-fueled Insanity”

    By Juan Velasquez  April 20, 2023
    So Many Damn Books

    Ling Ling Huang on the Intersection of Classical Music and Writing

    By So Many Damn Books  April 18, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Pattie Boyd Talks Art, Fashion, and Beatlemania

    By The Literary Life  April 14, 2023
    The Hub

    The ghost of Edgar Allan Poe has taken over Eurovision.

    By Eliza Smith  May 12, 2023
    The Writing Life

    Ling Ling Huang on the Similarities Between Classical Music and Fiction Writing

    By Ling Ling Huang  April 10, 2023
    Lit Century

    On Songs for Drella and the Paradox of Andy Warhol’s Art

    By Lit Century   April 4, 2023
    Celebrity

    Elissa Sloan and Jennifer Banash on Celebrity, Myth, and Fiction

    By Literary Hub  March 21, 2023
    Christianity

    The Gift of Holy Tongues: On Being the Bass Player for Evangelism

    “We learned to see ourselves as the lone heroes of our own epic dramas.”

    By Matthew McNaught  March 15, 2023
    Country Music

    When Johnny Cash Kissed Me: How the Country Star Changed My Life

    By Louisa Young  March 10, 2023
    Craft

    How a Middle School Piano Lesson Helped Me Write My Book

    By Ilyon Woo  March 6, 2023
    Rock and Roll

    How Bob Dylan Became a Counterculture Icon

    By Aaron J. Leonard  February 27, 2023
    The History of Literature

    James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

    From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

    By History of Literature  February 21, 2023
    Black Music

    “A Plethora of Answers.” Black Music as Nourishment and Inspiration

    By Janelle M. Williams  February 15, 2023
    Keen On

    H. Samy Alim Celebrates Hip Hop on its 50th Birthday

    By Keen On  February 14, 2023
    The Hub

    Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy will be publishing a book about his 50 favorite songs.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 9, 2023
    Remembrances

    Tom Verlaine was the Strand’s Best Customer

    Booksellers Remember the Coolest Celebrity “Cart Shark” of Them All

    By Colin Groundwater  February 7, 2023
    The Hub

    The great Dee Snider of Twisted Sister is writing a novel about toxic masculinity.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 27, 2023
    The Hub

    The new Daisy Jones & the Six trailer reveals one of 24 (!) original songs.

    By Eliza Smith  January 25, 2023
    The Hub

    What are the greatest songs about history? Simon Sebag Montefiore has some ideas.

    By Simon Sebag Montefiore  April 10, 2023
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