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Patrick McGilliganâs âLost Worldâ (opens the original)
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Patrick McGilligan is among Americaâs leading film historians, and his histories largely take the form of biographies. McGilligan has authored life stories of Orson Welles, Mel Brooks and Alfred Hitchcock among many others. With his latest book, The Good Life, he turns attention to himself in an autobiography of childhood and adolescence in Madison, where he grew up in the â50s and â60s. The bookâs subtitle, Growing Up in a Lost World, defines the focus. Raised in a mid-size heartland ci
When Family and Faith Hangs âBy a Wireâ (opens the original)
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American kids go to school in yellow buses. In one village in mountainous northern Pakistan, the children take a cable car that spans an impassible ravine. In 2023, two of the three cables supporting the jerry-rigged ride snapped on the way to school, leaving two adults and six middle-high school boys trapped midway. Hanging by a Wire is the story of the daring efforts to bring them home. The documentaryâs Pakistani American director, Mohammed Ali Naqvi, has a wealth of visual material to work
Halloween Tales, by Michael Blake (opens the original)
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Jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi took inspiration from Christmas and Halloween in memorable scores for Charlie Brown specials in the â60s. Saxophonist Michael Blake focuses on the latter holiday, even revisiting a pair of Guaraldi numbers from âItâs the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brownâ in lively interpretations. Blake also explores the harmonic potential in John Carpenterâs theme for Halloween. He ventures into the Duke Ellington songbook, mining the ominous potential of âStalking Monsterâ
Experienced: On the Road with Jimi Hendrix and Beyond, by Eric Barrett with Lawrence Robinson (opens the original)
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Eric Barrett escaped a dead-end life in a British coal mining, steel-milling town through rock and roll. He sang in a band, became a roadie and, through a chance encounter in a London club, became Jimi Hendrixâs guitar tech and gear hauler. This was 1967, when Hendrixâs ascent began, and for Barrett it was the beginning of a four-decade backstage career. Much of his memoir concerns early days with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Barrett got along well, as Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding were wo
The: Analects: Contemporary Translation, translated by Erin M. Cline (opens the original)
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Kongfuzi (called Confucius in the West) was a Chinese sage (c. 500 BC) whose teachings became fundamental in much of East Asia. Like all important teachers, contending schools developed and mistranslations occurred. In her new translation, Erin M. Cline (Georgetown University) decided on gender-neutral pronouns: âIn many cases,â she explains, this brings the text âcloser to the original classical Chinese than previous English translations.â Kongfuzi sounds less male-superior in Clineâs
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