Bob Dylan is in a little hot water amid allegations that his “original” paintings are actually rendered from other people’s photographs.
Bob Dylan’s Paintings
Music To My Ears
Oh, to have cows and restaurants named after you: the life of the unusually-named NPR reporter.
Dancing Feet
Fred didn’t always have Ginger: The Boston Review looks at the many dance partners of Fred Astaire, as catalogued by Hermes Pan: The Man Who Danced With Fred Astaire and The Astaires: Fred and Adele.
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Whitman Illuminated
Speaking of innovative publishing, Tin House released a new edition of Whitman‘s “Song of Myself” illustrated by Allen Crawford on May 16th. There’s a book trailer, and selected pages from the finished book can be seen here.
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Part 3 of Murakami’s 1Q84 coming soon in Japan
Part Three of Haruki Murakami’s massive new novel 1Q84 will be released in April. The novel is expected to be released in English by Random House in Fall 2011. Check out our previous reporting on Murakami’s latest here.
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