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...many book jackets as you used to?I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm greatful for it. Viva le book! I often get asked, "Is the book dead?" It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound-it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information...
...that immortal “Back in Black” opening line. Though the song starts to feel slightly bland with the continual repetition of “work, work, money made,” when the vocals fade out and leave the instrumentation unadulterated, the band creates pure magic, grounded in the solid interplay between guitar and drums. One of the best tracks on the album, “Spoilin’ for a Fight” is hair-splitting in the best possible sense. A wailing, brief guitar riff that tickles the ear leaves its calling card throughout...
...watered-down version of “The Color Purple,” you can excuse “The Simple Life of Bees” for its lack of complexity and instead sit back and appreciate the simplicity of the lessons, the vibrant characters, and the pure and sweet story that nowadays seems like such an anomaly...
...Comprising Junky Cao, 31, Youki, 28, and Jiadie, 20, Shanghai's Torturing Nurse make noise. Pure, harsh, uncompromising noise. And front man Cao couldn't be any prouder of the fact. "I hate melody and rhythm, and I hate rock bands. Not just in China, but all over the world," he says. "They're always repeating themselves and have no flavor at all. Noise is free; noise bands have freedom...
...tragedy of a work that should succeed—greatness is in its sights—but just cannot close the gap between mediocrity and magnificence.Amitav Ghosh’s new novel, “Sea of Poppies,” certainly has impressive hopes for itself. Perhaps its pure ambition was responsible for the book’s place on the short list for the Man Booker Prize. Ghosh juggles four or five storylines, a handful of countries, and a variety of languages (both official and pidgin) across 500 pages—and “Sea of Poppies?...