I think of Eugene O Neills words when I think about Gerry Rafferty a beautiful songwriter who wrote upbeat groovy tunes. Like many of my favourite artists he was a perfectionist socially awkward who had been disillusioned by the music business and its pernicious grip on your spirit after legal...
I think of Eugene O Neills words when I think about Gerry Rafferty a beautiful songwriter who wrote upbeat groovy tunes. Like many of my favourite artists he was a perfectionist socially awkward who had been disillusioned by the music business and its pernicious grip on your spirit after legal...
In May 1927, he wrote to the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on behalf of the Comintern. He was uncompromising: “The time has come for action. The bad guys must be punished. If the KMT do not learn to be Jacobins for the revolution, they will be ...
Robin Sloan wrote. “But ‘sensible’ is another word for predictable, overused and boring. My intention here is to produce something unexpected.” I’m unconvinced that writers awarded the Nobel Prize have much to fear from AI. Their work, and that of countless other novelists, short story ...
"We recorded my first song, ‘It Was You’, in late 1963 at the home studio of Barry Gray, who wrote music for children’s TV puppet series like Thunderbirds and Fireball XL5. Dick James, The Beatles’ co-publisher at the time, heard ‘It Was You’ and signed me to his company....
The questions, Who wrote it? and When was it written? are not easily answered. It would appear that portions of it must have been written after the time of Saul, for the phrase, frequently repeated, “there was then no king in the land,” looks back from a period when there _was_ ...
The book reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of ...
The DJ-turned-hitmaker still notched an Oscar nomination, though, thanks to a different Barbie number he co-wrote: the Ryan Gosling-sung "I'm Just Ken." Martin Scorsese Here's a staggering fact: Martin Scorsese, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers in Hollywood history, has ...
In Buncombe County, early voting patterns “demonstrate the urgent need for four additional early voting locations,” wrote Philip R. Thomas ina letteron behalf of the RNC dated Friday and made public Saturday. Thomas urged the county’s Democrat-controlled election board to “immediately” cal...
Fun facts: President Joe Biden wrote the foreword to McBride’s 2018 memoir by McBride entitled: “Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality.” She was also student body president at American University. We’re spotlighting new ...