Now There’s An MTV For Book Trailers

WORDS Posted: June 11, 2014 11:45 pm

“BookReels, a dedicated interactive website that allows publishers and authors to post multimedia visuals ranging from animated book covers to trailers, is now available for readers as a unique way to preview and browse books.”

Snapshot: “Behind Your Radio Dial”
“Behind Your Radio Dial,” a 1948 promotional film about the NBC radio network, directed by Edward J. Montagne, The film features on-camera appearances by Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Jim and Marian Jordan (who played Fibber ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-08-23
Almanac: Elie Wiesel on despair
“Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.” Elie Wiesel, Nobel lecture, 1986 ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-08-23
Storm Brewing
I’ve written before about the impact funding inequity is having on political discourse about government support of the arts. The Visible Hand was a response to Barry Hessenius’ observations about funding controversies in San Francisco ... read more
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The Beatles After The Beatles
I THINK it was the writer Michael Chabon who once told me he loved family partly because it gave him a glimpse at four different generations and the way they saw the world and ... read more
AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2017-08-22
Lookback: on liking big-band music
From 2007: I was recently informed that my liking for the music of the big-band era proves that I was very happy in my previous life and seek to recreate its pleasures in this one. ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-08-22
Almanac: Jean-Paul Sartre on despair
“Human life begins on the far side of despair.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Les Mouches ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-08-22
Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis
MY interest in Herbie Hancock’s music has ranged over the years, but it has not so much ranged up and down as much as side to side. I first heard, and loved, the funk ... read more
AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2017-08-21
Appropriate Appropriation
Never been the kind of composer who slows way down during the academic year and then composes like crazy in the summer, but that seems to have changed this year. I’ve been blasting out music ... read more
AJBlog: Infinite CurvesPublished 2017-08-21
Just because: Karajan conducts Ravel
Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic perform the second suite from Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chlöé in concert: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-08-21
Almanac: Maurice Ravel on happiness and the creative artist
“I have never been so happy to be alive, and I firmly believe that joy is far more fertile than suffering. It’s an opinion as valid as any other.” Maurice Ravel, letter to Madame René ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-08-21
Monday Recommendation: Tommy Smith On Coltrane
Tommy Smith, Embodying The Light: A Dedication To John Coltrane (Spartacus Records) Fifty years ago in the aftermath of John Coltrane’s death, it would have seemed unlikely that a definitive tribute to ... read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2017-08-21
History Of Jazz Piano Goes Online
Bill Mays and I have frequently been asked whether our History Of Jazz Piano project would ever be available to the public. After a good deal of discussion, attention to detail and ... read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2017-08-20
What We’ve Learned About Audiences – Five Case Studies In Data…
This Week’s Insights: What can happen when an orchestra takes an entirely different approach to changing how it thinks about audience (good things happen)… Can MoviePass Netflixize the movie theatre business?… A theatre piece ... read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts AudiencePublished 2017-08-20
Eclipse Music
There are several jazz pieces called “Eclipse.” Tenor saxophonist Gato Barbieri, the Japanese group called Kyoto Jazz Massive, and the Mexican singer Bere Contreras, among others, have performed or recorded compositions with ... read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2017-08-20
Berkshire Bumble: Director’s Letter Reveals Focus Groups Kept in the Dark About Planned Art Sales
In the sell-job for its New Vision, the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, has made much of the fact that “approximately 400 people have participated in the community consultation process” during the planning phase. But a ... read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2017-08-18
Perfection-on-the-Lake
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I review two important revivals at Ontario’s Shaw Festival, Dancing at Lughnasa and The Madness of George III. Here’s an excerpt. * * * The Shaw Festival, one ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-08-18
Shaw in the summertime
In addition to my regular drama column for today’s Wall Street Journal, I’ve also reviewed two regional Shaw revivals, The Doctor’s Dilemma in New Hampshire and Saint Joan at the Shaw Festival, in the paper’s ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-08-18
Replay: Terence Rattigan’s Separate Tables
A 1983 TV version of Terence Rattigan’s Separate Tables, directed by John Schlesinger and starring Alan Bates, Julie Christie and Claire Bloom. This production was originally telecast in Great Britain on ITV and in the ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-08-18
Almanac: Francis Bacon on doubt and certainty
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.” Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-08-18
So you want to see a show?
Here’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wall Street Journal when they opened. For more ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-08-17

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