musicOMH.com A while ago I wrote a review of The National at the 100 Club, and confessed that their last song of the night left me in tears. It was the climax of an emotionally draining set. By the time I listened to Gospel, the final track on the band’s
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MusicOMH The guys look knackered. Slumped on a sofa Matt Berninger, lyricist and lead singer, and Aaron Dessner, guitarist and bassist, with The National are near the end of the first of two days of back-to-back media interviews. They flew in on the red-eye from New York this morning and
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If you haven’t seen the following item in today’s NY Times, you should read it. It is an understandable way to go for publishers, but not good news for authors. From the New York Times Simon & Schuster, one of the largest book publishers in the U.S., has altered its
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Where Fopp differs from these larger chains, however, is its focus on one man: Fifty Quid Bloke. This refers to AB1 males, aged between 25 and 45 with money to burn. Traditional retail philosophy has it that this is a hard group to reach, but Fopp manages to persuade Fifty Quid Bloke to part with £38 ($75) on an average visit when average expenditure in rival retailers is lower.
Richard Charkin‘s blog has an interesting discussion about ereaders, following Andrew Marr’s piece last week in the Guardian, which you can read here. I’ve written my response, which goes along the following lines. I think most of us and the National Treasure that is Andrew Marr are all – sorry
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“I know people who are 50% down in terms of income,” children’s author Tony Bradman says. As chair of the Society of Authors Children’s Group, Bradman is well placed to gauge opinion. “I have talked to a lot of children’s authors and they are worried. I don’t know any who look at the situation now and feel it is fine.”
What have I started? The emails continue to flood in responding to my attack on Call Girl Memoirs in the Daily Mail. Most agree with me, but one, bless her, pointed out she earned more on the game than she would as an interior designer. Having interviewed Laurence Llewellyn Bowen
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Alan Titchmarsh felt he couldn’t reproach the fan, because if he did he would be accused of beign an “arrogant celeb” and, at best, it would create a scene, at worst, a story in the tabloids.
Orion Website Without fear of contradiction, I can write that Michael Collins will be the only extreme athlete, computing, Booker Prize nominee I will ever interview. The thought amuses the Irish author, who has spent the past 25 years not just living in the USA, but using his pen to
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