Guy Peellaert was the Dutch-born artists responsible for illustrating the book Rock Dreams (1976), a tome that introduced me at a young and impressionable age to the history and more importantly the mythology of rock and roll. His dreamlike, paintings were filled with the humor, lust and grandeur of rock – I always wished that [...]
Hyper-referential post-modern author David Foster Wallace ended his own life this weekend. Best known for his half-ton Pynchon in a blender Infinite Jest he also wrote a number of short story collections and essays. My own favorite is one my wife had to entice me to read, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again [...]
Author Gregory Mcdonald who created the characters of investigative reporter Irwin Maurice (I.M.) Fletcher – better known as Fletch – and Boston’s own Inspector Flynn – has died of cancer. Fletch was a sensation when he was introduced to readers in 1974, spawning numerous books and two films starring Chevy Chase. Chase caught the hip [...]
Arthur C. Clarke, one of the premier science fiction writers and one of the inventors of the geostationary telecommunication satellite, has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90. Clarke saw himself as a popularizer and cheerleader of the possible technological advances of the future in his science fiction writing. Yet he often introduced [...]
The Coen Bothers — you boys look too thin, have you eaten? Let me fix you something… In a mitzvah likely to earn them pinched cheeks all around from book lovers, those nice young boys Ethan and Joel Coen are set to adapt Michael Chabon’s acclaimed novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union for their next picture. [...]
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