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Musician + Author = Crap

Worst of Both Worlds
On Tuesday, musician Ben Folds (formerly of the Five) and rock-obsessed novelist Nick Hornby ( High Fidelity ) released a collaborative record called Lonely Avenue . The result of this musical-literary team-up isn't excruciating.
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | September 29, 2010

Heart of gold

Jonathan Demme wins the Coolidge Award
How can someone make so many movies for so long and still be such a nice guy? Once again, the Coolidge Corner Theatre is giving its Coolidge Award to a filmmaker who genuinely deserves the recognition. Hollywood seldom turns out anyone as good-natured, talented, and eclectic as Jonathan Demme.
By PETER KEOUGH | February 25, 2010

Most popular articles of 2009

The year in martyrs, mortuaries, chupacabras, and pot-peddling soccer moms
The stories you couldn't not read this year
By PHOENIX STAFF | December 22, 2009

Review: Where the Wild Things Are

Jonze, Eggers, and Sendak aren’t kidding around
I can’t speak for the kids, but I would rate Spike Jonze & Dave Eggers’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s 40-page children’s picture book up there with Up and Wall•E as topping the recent renaissance in children’s movies. If pressed, I’d rank it close to The Wizard of Oz .
By PETER KEOUGH | October 19, 2009

Review: Away We Go

Sam Mendes furthers his descent
Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida had a baby last December, their second, and congratulations for that. But not for this self-righteous, pseudo-hip, cutesy-wootsy, cringe-inducing screed.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 10, 2009

Interview: Christopher Monks

Gameboy
Ever feel you should earn points for remembering to get up in the morning?
By CLEA SIMON | January 15, 2009

Where the wild things are

As our planet edges closer to the apocalypse, the escapist, fantasy world of cryptids is suddenly coming to life
Venture out into the waters and woodlands of New England, and there's a chance you'll bump into "Champ," America's own Loch Ness Monster, who allegedly plies the muddy ripples of Lake Champlain.
By MIKE MILIARD | January 12, 2009

Interview: John Hodgman

One man's operating system
Long before John Hodgman became universally recognized as the systems-challenged PC in Apple’s ads, he was writing fake trivia for such publications as McSweeney’s and the New York Times Magazine.
By CLEA SIMON | November 21, 2008

More different than alike

Searching for national identity in State By State: A Panoramic Portrait of America
In 1935, Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) as part of the New Deal’s Works Projects Administration (WPA).
By MIKE MILIARD | September 24, 2008

The cuteness surge

Why, in desperate times, we turn to lolcats, twee songs, and mute kittens
Cuteness, of course, is the collective cultural cure-all to our problems.
By SHARON STEEL | February 01, 2008

Decivilization and its discontents

The editors of literary magazine n+1 talk about the theme of their new issue, and why the world needs their work
“Sign yourself up for the reinvigoration of civilization and, while you’re at it, n+1 .” The bar was set. Civilization was at stake.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | April 04, 2007

Coming up Daisey

Invincible Summer and Monopoly! head for Cambridge
Mike Daisey has a blog. But unlike millions, Daisey also has an archive that goes back to 2001.
By LIZA WEISSTUCH | March 21, 2007

Choose your own adventure

Pencils, books, and peg legs? A new writing center is coming to town, and it’s calling your inner child.
This fall, Boston is slated to become the seventh chapter of the youth writing organization founded by Dave Eggers in 2002.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | March 15, 2007

The who behind What

Podcast: Dave Eggers, Samantha Power, and Valentino Achak Deng discuss What Is the What
Listen to a discussion with Dave Eggers, Samantha Power, and Valentino Achak Deng, recorded at Harvard's Memorial Hall on February 26, 2007
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | March 06, 2007

Sorrow floats

Chris Adrian reckons with human suffering in his new book The Children’s Hospital
Chris Adrian is trying to figure out how to bring people back to life.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | March 02, 2007

Bankruptcy won't hurt Eggers's fundraising

Money matters
Scores of independent publishing houses have faced possible shutdown in the past two months, due to the bankruptcy of the corporation that owns Publishers Group West, a major distributor in the indie book world.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | February 28, 2007

Indulge me

How the writer of a generation stopped speaking for himself
If Dave Eggers’s career is any indication, the best way to become a writer of importance is to convince everyone you’re a self-indulgent jerk and then pull the rug out from under them.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | February 14, 2007

Uses of Heidi Julavits

Founding editor of the Believer on reading, writing, and response
Someone recently told Heidi Julavits that she’ll be remembered most for a Believer essay that appeared in the magazine’s March 2003 debut issue.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | February 14, 2007

Dreams do come true

Coming attractions
Longfellow Books confirmed Tuesday that Dave Eggers will deliver a reading at SPACE Gallery on Sunday, February 25.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | January 24, 2007

The uses of Heidi Julavits

Hunting the wild Klosterman

Things about the pop-culture writer that are true, things that might be true, and something that isn’t true at all
He is Charles John “Chuck” Klosterman: pop-culture critic, four-time author, celebrity profiler, Esquire columnist, ESPN Page 2 sportswriter, former Spin senior editor, unrepentant Billy Joel fan. And he makes girls spit. Chuck Klosterman reads from Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (mp3)
By CAMILLE DODERO | October 05, 2006

Campaign sparks improvements at Brown Bookstore

City watch
Nocturnal browsers have had nowhere to go on Thayer Street ever since the College Hill Bookstore, which used to stay open until midnight, closed two years ago.
By PETER IAN ASEN | August 30, 2006

J.T. & me

How I fell for the second-best literary hoax of the year
Once upon a time in Harvard Square there was a short-lived venue called the Market Theatre. The space truly altered the face of performance art in Boston by taking on avant-garde projects and obscure playwrights, and turning them loose on mainstream audiences. It was awesome.
By KAY HANLEY | February 23, 2006