Since releasing its 2003 full-length debut, “Kind of Light,” the Los Angeles-based band the 88 has seemed, with polished, Kinks-inspired songs and tailored suits, the group most likely to end up in a Wes Anderson movie.
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Over the last few years, Kelly Link has come to be regarded as perhaps the most imaginative writer working the rich territory where fantasy, ghost stories and faerie tales come together with literary fiction.
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It’s been a tough few weeks for West Coast geniuses.
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WHEN John Adams, the celebrated composer who is to his adopted California as Sibelius is to Finland, decided to write a memoir of his life and music, he realized there was virtually no model for his project.
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On the long list of indie bands that deserve wider hearing – Quasi, the Ladybug Transistor, the Clientele – sits the New Year, a mild-mannered group whose songs begin as reflective, melancholy odes and transform themselves into chiming cathedrals of sound.
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One of the fascinating things about the hard-boiled tradition is its geographic flexibility.
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SEATTLE – For all of Neal Stephenson’s achievements, his most impressive may be his ability to attract a following equal parts hacker and literati.
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MIKEL JOLLETT, lead singer of the fast-breaking local band the Airborne Toxic Event, is aware of his reputation for darkness.
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It was only 50 or so years ago that critics and intellectuals were busy constructing – and redrawing, and shoring up – hierarchies about what kinds of culture were good for us and which ones were bad.
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MICHAEL CHABON, the author of novels such as the exuberant, Pulitzer-winning “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
& Clay” and “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” an alternate-universe story that recently won the Nebula Award, has long harbored a passion: to make the literary world safe for genre fiction, and to expand the notion of what a serious work of fiction can be.
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