A book of photos by Ringo Star, “Photograph,” was published earlier this year. Turns out the Beatles’ drummer and sometime singer is a pretty good photographer.
You can check out a gallery of his photos (24 of them) at the CBS News site and there are nine different photos by Ringo at The Hollywood Reporter. It’s definitely work a look if you care about the Fab Four.
Later this week the Throwing Muses return with a new album, Purgatory/Paradise, their first in ten years. The 32-track album comes with a 64-page book of essays and stories by Kirstin Hersh, plus photos and artwork by Muses’ drummer Dave Narcizo and Hersh.
“We’ve always lived in our own private world,” Muses leader Kirstin Hersh told The Independent, “and we might well have made this record and never released it, but we felt it was worthy of release.”
The group has spent the past decade “divorcing ourselves from the recording industry, which is collapsing. We wanted no further part in it,” Hersh said.
The new book/album is being published by HarperCollins’ The Friday Project Limited imprint.
For the entire story, head to The Independent.
Here’s are some old videos for your enjoyment.
Despite my hope that Bob Dylan would get it (he was a long shot I know), this year Alice Munro has won the Nobel Price In Literature today (October 10, 2013).
The Swedish Academy called Munro a “master of the contemporary short story.”
“A true master of the form,” Salman Rushdie said of Munro.
Get the full story here.
The Italian writer Elena Ferrante is one of my favorite living novelists. She won me over with her heartbreaking 2012 novel, “My Brilliant Friend,” the first volume of a trilogy. It’s the story of two friends, Lila and Elena.
We start when the two are kids, and we follow them into their teenage years and Lila’s marriage. The two girls live in Naples and their families are dirt poor. The girls or people they know suffer many misfortunes. And yet this is an inspirational book. It’s narrated by Elena long after all that she recounts has happened.
There are two great pieces you can read to get up to speed on Ferrante.
The first ran last year in the New Yorker following publication of the first book of her trilogy. Read it here.
More recently, the New York Times ran this review of “Story of a New Name,” the second volume.
Hopefully the third volume will be published in a year or so.
Maybe you already know about this, but then again maybe you don’t. The song is “sleepwalking 1.” It’s a cool taste of the new Throwing Muses CD/book, Purgatory/Paradise due October 28.
For more, check out this old story in Pitchfork.
Here’s a list of the tracks:
Purgatory/Paradise:
01 smoky hands
02 morning birds 1
03 sleepwalking 2
04 sunray venus
05 cherry candy 1
06 film
07 opiates
08 cherry candy 2
09 freesia
10 curtains 1
11 triangle quanitico
12 morning birds 2
13 lazy eye
14 blurry 1
15 folding fire
16 slippershell
17 bluff
18 blurry 2
19 terra nova
20 walking talking
21 milan
22 curtains 2
23 folding fire 1
24 static
25 clark’s nutcracker
26 dripping trees
27 sleepwalking 1
28 smoky hands 2
29 speedbath
30 quick
31 dripping trees 2
32 glass cats