HILOBROW – Page 1318 – Josh Glenn, ed.

Devin McKinney on: old records, Nabokov, Gore Vidal’s Narratives of Empire

By Devin McKinney

NIGHT LIFE

By Will Groff

29^th
Sep

The last man standing of Sun Records’ early roster has been known to set himself among even loftier company. “Al Jolson, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank...

By Franklin Bruno

28^th
Sep

Same as last week, except Gladwell Moore’s Clunk enters the list at no. 8, knocking out Don Piper’s 90 Minutes in Heaven. 1) THREE...

By Joshua Glenn

28^th
Sep

Listening to NPR yesterday morning for the first time in a month of Sundays, I caught the puzzle segment with Will Shortz. While Will...

By Matthew Battles

28^th
Sep

Blonde bombshell BRIGITTE BARDOT (born 1934) exploded onto the world stage in the 1950s. A woman with the neotenic features of a child, Bardot’s...

By Peggy Nelson

27^th
Sep

The first thing to be said about the concept of the “oral history,” as it applies to rock biography, is that Sigmund Freud —...

By James Parker

27^th
Sep

JIM THOMPSON (1906-77) was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma, in a room above the jail, the son of a crooked sheriff. A good part of...

By Lucy Sante

26^th
Sep

Brilliant at breaking down everyday life into discrete moments.

By Joe Alterio

25^th
Sep

Ringtone: "The Twist"

By Joshua Glenn