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...Britta’s debut album, “Back Numbers.” In “Back Numbers,” the married couple, formerly of the indie-rock band Luna, step away from their well-respected place in the music industry to explore a folksy, Mitch and Mickey sound. M. Dean Wareham ’85, who’s billed in the accompanying press material as “an architect of despair,” comes across as more of a lovesick crooner, flatly singing “Honey I miss you now / Baby...
...have toed the line between fact and fiction: they read like memoirs or autobiographies, but something pushes them into the realm of novel, whether it’s the implausible (as in Alice Sebold’s “The Lovely Bones”), the unlikely (as in Mitch Albom’s “For One More Day”), or simply a reconstruction of dialogues long gone. Usually, the publisher will help you out a little, labeling something as either fiction or memoir. But then we come to “What is the What...
...iconic pre-rock-'n'-roll singer, dubbed "Old Leather Lungs," who entranced teenagers of the 1940s and '50s with his booming, rough-hewn voice on hits like Mule Train and Ghost Riders in the Sky; in San Diego. As a young jazz singer, Laine caught the eye of bandleader Mitch Miller, who brought him to Columbia Records. The burly Laine, who said he liked to use his voice "like a horn," sold more than 100 million records and drew new fans in the early '60s for singing the theme to TV's Rawhide...
Growing up in the Baptist-dominated wilds of western North Carolina, I usually watched book burnings with a mixture of perplexity and dismay. Now I understand them. Sometimes, books are so offensive they necessitate bonfires. Case in point: Mitch Albom’s new bestseller. “For One More Day” tells of what happens when the middle-aged Charley has the chance to have “the ‘one more day’ that so many wish they had with a lost loved one—a day to ask questions, seek forgiveness...
Starbucks? Yep. The company that brought the word venti into daily use has become a purveyor of solidly middlebrow culture to go with its joe. Beah's is the second book it has chosen to feature in its 6,000 stores. Its first was by best-selling male weepmeister Mitch Albom (he of those Tuesdays with Morrie), which suggests how far the child-soldier has moved as a phenomenon for mass consumption...