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Even though it is over fifty years old, this is still the best
single-volume book in any language on the history and
development of the Faust legend. Butler was a Cambridge don and
one of the greatest of all Germanists in the world. Brilliant
insights, incredible scholarship, scintillating writing (Yes,
Virginia, there was a time when professors could actually write
well), and lots of sarcastic asides about the character (or lack
thereof) and the strange habits of the German people. A must
read for people whose intellectual baggage is of Louis Vuitton
quality.
This deliciously savage novel is about the dog-eat-dog world of
high-profile (and low IQ) magazine publishing. Heller shows that
literacy is definitely a drawback for anyone contemplating a
career as a magazine editor. The ghost of that Eurotrash editrix
whore Tina Brown (who destroyed in turn Vanity Fair, The New
Yorker and Talk magazines, and who once famously told Isaac
Bashevis Singer to “punch up” his prose without even realizing
that Singer had won a Nobel Prize for Literature) oozes out of
every pore of this roman a clef. Funny, hysterical, nasty and
cynical, “Slab Rat” does for publishing what “The Player” did
for Hollywood.
She’s good-looking, she plays the Hammond B-3 organ like Jimmy
Smith and she swings her a** off…and she’s German. Who’da thunk
it? This album is a jazz classic and features eight original
tunes by Frau Dennerlein herself. Also features the late, great
Bob Berg on tenor sax.
San Francisco-based jazz singer Kitty Margolis can scat, shout
the blues and sing a torch song better than anyone else. Check
out her version of Monk’s “In Walked Bean”, a Coltrane-inspired
arrangement of “All or Nothing at All” and a terrific reading of
Weill’s standard “Soeak Low” and you’ll see why Kitty Margolis
is a favorite of real jazz fans who can only take the “smooth”
label when it is applied to peanut butter.
This 1937 film penned by the comedy genius Preston Sturges is
one of the funniest movies ever made. Jean Arthur plays a poor
secretary who is mistaken for a wealthy banker’s mistress. “Easy
Living” defines the screwball comedy. Also, you’ll find out just
where the name Louis Louis came from. Did I say there is a food
fight in a Manhattan automat?
