SOUNDTRACK: ANTHONY HAMILTON-Tiny Desk Concert #517 (March 28, 2016).
I don’t know Anthony Hamilton, probably because he is a soul singer and I don’t listen to soul music. He’s won Grammy’s and everything! He and this band The Hamiltones (nice) had just played for the Obamas, and they came to the NPR offices afterward.
The first song, “Amen,” is new and he says was his attempt to write an R. Kelly song. The other three songs are apparently the ones that have made him famous. The songs are “Best of Me,” “Cool” and “Charlene.”
I love his American Flag jacket/sweater or whatever it is. And his voice and the voices of The Hamiltones are pretty sweet. No doubt if I listened to soul music, I’d have a lot of Hamilton’s discs.
[READ: January 26, 2016] “Family Business”
This essay was an interesting mash-up of two writers that I’d like to read more of. I am a fan of Nabokov’s although I have read but a smattering of his work. And I have enjoyed what I’ve read by Lipsky, although I have yet to delve into his fiction.
This is a book review of the recent publication of Vladimir Nabokov’s letters to his wife Vera throughout the length of their mostly happy fifty-two year marriage. Sadly, Vera’s letters were destroyed (by her), although as it turns out, she didn’t write very much back to him anyway.
This is the kind of book review that I find exceedingly enjoyable. It sums up what the book has to say and then lets me know that while I might enjoy reading it, I don’t actually have to. Not that he gives away spoilers–are their spoilers if you know what their life is like already? But he really gets the gist of the letters and their life. And frankly, I don’t need to be that intimate with the writer, even if I do enjoy his works. (more…)
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