Claire Small on How Do You Like Love?

In researching an upcoming Peter Bradley Adams interview, I learned about the music of Claire Small, and found myself drawn almost immediately to her songwriting and voice (the latter of which reminds me of Shawn Colvin). I love Small’s succinct and effective bio: “Claire Small is living out her musical adventure that includes leaving, losing, loving [...]

History: Paul Harvey and J. Edgar Hoover

I’m grateful to Robert Feder for pointing out the Washington Post’s January 23 article on the 20-year friendship between Paul Harvey and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Understandably, after gaining access to more than 1,400 pages of documents through a Freedom of Information request, many details are brought to light about the friendship. As noted [...]

YouTube: The Criterion Collection Now Has a Channel

The Criterion Collection–the folks that as they so succinctly put it: “Since 1984 . . .  has been dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements”–now has a YouTube channel. I assume it will be mostly populated with [...]

Deborah Beale on Using Twitter to Preview Tad Williams’ Shadowrise

As damn fine a writer and editor that Deborah Beale is, I consider her equally great as a marketing genius. I’ve written before about some of her and husband/business partner/writer Tad Williams marketing ventures before in this post from last October. I recently joined Twitter (find me here as Talkingwithtim) and have started observing how [...]

Interviews Delayed

Most of the time I have an inventory of interviews to run, but in recent weeks, I’ve been making it week to week. This past week, it just did not time out well. I hope to get back on schedule this week, but can make no promises. In the good news department, I was able [...]