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A Short Walk with Patsy Cline leaves you wanting more. It will send you — back or for the first time — to Cline’s own recordings.
Brooklyn indie rock act The Hold Steady will be at Suffolk Downs this weekend. The band’s frontman, Craig Finn, is a Boston native.
Scott Bomar’s multi-generational band The Bo-Keys has almost single-handedly kept the soul tradition of the Stax and Hi labels alive.
By Tess Lewis A new novel captures the atmosphere of post-1956 Hungary from a child’s point of view. The Swimmer by Zsuzsa Bank. Translated from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo. (Harcourt Books) In tales of exile, the stories of those left behind are rarely told. This is hardly surprising because the abandoned, when they…
This slender memoir reads like a rambling conversation with a literary stranger you meet on a train.
Despite the soap opera details, Everybody Knows never becomes implausible.
You will have to be up for this short story collection ; you will learn a lot about a corner of the world that’s rarely captured, and is done so here exceptionally well.
“Hello, I’m Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity” by Hal Niedzviecki. (City Lights) By Adrienne LaFrance A word to the mohawked and tattooed, to those who reject cell phones and popular music. Yes, you, the self-proclaimed non-conformists: You’re not special. Or maybe more aptly, you’re just as unique as the droves of people trying…
The protagonist’s version of barroom existentialism works as an unofficial précis for the struggle to make it through another day of being human.
Arts Commentary: Music for Times of Trouble
I’ve been most impressed by the manner in which these composers, in these works, took strong moral and/or political stands.
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