Review: Elvis is King: Costello’s My Aim Is True by Richard Crouse
Word on the street is that Elvis Costello has a memoir due any day now. For those who can’t wait, there’s Richard Crouse’s Elvis Is King: Costello’s My Aim Is True, a meticulously researched account of Costello’s early years and the release of his first LP with independent label Stiff Records. Of particular interest with […]
Poetry: Lucio Mariani
Contest by Lucio Mariani You’d ask if I were ever late. That’s a problem for people stuck between the second and last lanes. Me. I’m in lone pursuit. So that whether I’m early or late depends solely on the day’s disaffection. To catch the beat I clapped my hands once or twice, Before splashing my […]
Interview: Ann Morgan Author of The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe
What Ann Morgan learned from a year spent reading a book from every country in the world. Shelf Unbound: You spent all of 2012 reading translated books from 196 countries. How did this project come about? Ann Morgan: A comment from someone on a small blog I wrote in 2011 (ayearofreadingwomen.wordpress.com) got me thinking about […]
Interview: Claudine Dumont Author of Captive
A can’t-put-it-down existential thriller from debut novelist Claudine Dumont. Shelf Unbound: In Captive, a young woman with a dull job who has isolated herself from friends and family and drinks herself to sleep each night is captured from her apartment and wakes up in a sealed room. The setup is a contemporary spin on Sartre’s […]