His desire to create a song was to express his testimony, as a special witness of the Savior, with the added power of music’ ...

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O’Nan’s 19th novel, “ Evensong ,” follows half a year in the lives of Susie, Kitzi, Emily, and Arlene, four women in the ...

The children’s song "He Cares for Me" in the new hymnbook "was a contribution that I could make to the Lord even if nobody else saw it," said the author and composer, Kenneth S. Schank.

Short Form,” published by Mack Books, offers insight into the backstories of classic music video by the likes of Lauryn Hill, Radiohead, and Jamiroquai—as well as ads directed by legendary filmmakers ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with R&B musician Leon Thomas, who describes his new EP Pholks as a collaboration of polymaths inspired by multi-talented artists like Prince and Quincy Jones.

Devo and Thomas Pynchon. Mick Jagger and Charles Baudelaire. Though they seem like rather unlikely pairings, many great rock songs have been the result of a lyricist finding inspiration in the pages ...

OPM icon Raymond Lauchengco is celebrating his 60th birthday with an all-star concert on November 28, a new song out on Oct. 8 and a book of areworks and stories! “As I turn 60 this November and ...

His latest novel borrows too freely from his previous work. But what work it has been By Leo Robson Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon’s new novel, is built around doubles. It takes place in 1932, and ...

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The cult of Thomas Pynchon is powerful and will only be bolstered by Shadow Ticket, the 88-year-old writer’s first novel in 12 years and one that, as an admirer of much of his previous work, I found ...

The good news about Shadow Ticket—the new Thomas Pynchon novel and his first in 12 years—is that it’s one of his private-eye stories. Fictional gumshoes make ideal Pynchon protagonists, guys not in it ...