One of the most idiosyncratic and charismatic musicians of the twentieth century, pianist Glenn Gould (1932 82) slouched at the piano from a sawed-down wooden stool, interpreting Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart at hastened tempos with pristine clarity. A strange genius and true eccentric, Gould was renowned not only for his musical gifts but also for his erratic behavior: he often hummed aloud during concerts and appeared in unpressed tails, fingerless gloves, and fur coats. In 1964, at the height of his controversial career, he abandoned the stage completely to focus instead on recording and...
One of the most idiosyncratic and charismatic musicians of the twentieth century, pianist Glenn Gould (1932 82) slouched at the piano from a sawed-dow...
Gathers together twenty-nine of the most significant and revealing conversations with Bob Dylan, from the earliest days of his career. This work includes the seminal "Rolling Stone" interviews by Jann Wenner, Jonathan Cott, Kurt Loder and Mikal Gilmore, as
Gathers together twenty-nine of the most significant and revealing conversations with Bob Dylan, from the earliest days of his career. This work inclu...
Published in its entirety for the first time, a candid conversation with Susan Sontag at the height of her brilliant career
-One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling, which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment . . . and I don't believe it's true. . . . I have the impression that thinking is a form of feeling and that feeling is a form of thinking.-
Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the...
Published in its entirety for the first time, a candid conversation with Susan Sontag at the height of her brilliant career
