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On Movies & Media

Paste was too good to be true. Except that it was true.

Passion blazed in every issue. If you needed signs of life in music, film, and culture, you didn't need to do anything but hold a copy of Paste in your hands. The writing was filled with heart, smarts, wit, character, and love It looked great. Every other arts

Looking Elsewhere

Browser: The "Remember me?" edition. Best Directors of the Decade. Lonely writers.

Okay, it's official: My life has become too busy for me to be a responsible blogger. Let me try to make it up to you in the next couple of weeks, with a new video blog, my list of Favorite Films of 2009 (the Premature Version), my list

On Books & Writing

Let's Save Paste!

Those of you who know the substantial piece of publishing that Rolling Stone once was have probably been saddened by what the magazine has become: an ordinary catalog of advertising, occasionally interrupted by an article worth reading. Even worse, music-lovers lately mourned the loss of No Depression's

Looking Elsewhere

Browser: Save Paste Magazine! Daniel Day-Lewis Dances! Movies Based on a True (False) Story

1. SAVE PASTE MAGAZINE. Read this urgent message from Over the Rhine and Paste magazine. 2. The return of Daniel Day-Lewis. And you've never seen him do this before. Here's the trailer for Rob Marshall's new musical: "Nine." httpv://www.youtube.

Browser: Gerard Manley Hopkins & Paul Mariani; A moratoriaum on Holocaust films?; Plus, U2, Katherine Heigl, Keanu and more 2008 Film Awards

Paul Mariani, one of my favorite poets, has now penned a new book on Gerard Manley Hopkins. Books and Culture has a review. More... * Should there be a moratorium on "Holocaust films"? Stewart Klawans thinks so. * Watch out, polygamists. Here comes Katherine Heigl. Variety reports: "Katherine Heigl

Josh Jackson Interviews Sam Phillips

Josh Jackson interviewed Sam Phillips recently, right at the beginning of her tour of Borders bookstores. I'll be talking with her again soon for a special assignment I've been given. Can't wait. Here's Josh's conversation, at Paste of course.

My Favorite Music Reviewer Speaks

Andy Whitman, my favorite writer at Paste Magazine, delivered a lecture at the Trinity Arts Conference last week. I missed it. My work schedule prevented me from attending, and it hurt to miss out. Nobody writes about music with more passion than Andy. And few can draw from such a

Paste reviews Don't Do Anything

Will I see you at the Borders bookstore in Redmond, Washington next Wednesday? Sam Phillips will be there, playing songs from her new album Don't Do Anything. And if you need any more persuading to pick up a copy, here's a review in Paste: The difference

Flannery O'Connor

The Browser, 5/8: O'Connor; Berryman; Joe Henry; Elvis Costello; Ron Burgundy; Image on Lumet's latest

Do you have the equipment? Flannery O'Connor blogged twice this week. That's always worth a look. And what great quotes. * The Badge of Shame This is why I read Jeff Berryman's blog. His anecdotes and observations interrupt my scattered, frivolous thoughts with sobering insights.

Linford Detweiler Tells Over the Rhine's "Made in America" Story

At Paste, Linford Detweiler slips into that storytelling voice that fans of Over the Rhine know and love, and he vividly illustrates the events leading up to his career as a songwriter, to the recording of The Trumpet Child, and to the arrival of a song about Tom Waits.

On Songs & Albums

Pay What You Can for Paste Magazine!

This just in: Visit http://www.pastemagazine.com and follow the banners to name your price! Normally, a one-year subscription is $19.95, and it would cost more than $60 to buy each issue from the newsstand all year. But for a limited time, YOU get to chose how

Overstreet's Books

Paste Magazine's Josh Jackson Interprets "Auralia's Colors"

It's exciting for me when folks who blog about fantasy literature discover Auralia's Colors. It's rather startling when the editor of your favorite music magazine blogs about it. Thanks for the kind words, Josh. What a nice birthday (or birthday-eve) surprise...

My new review of Distant

On Movies & Media

My new review of Distant

The Other Journal has published my review of Distant. I wrote a capsule review of Distant for Paste Magazine recently, but this film from director Nuri Bilge Ceylan demanded much closer attention. Pick it up sometime on DVD.

More Constantine ramblings up at Paste Magazine

On Movies & Media

More Constantine ramblings up at Paste Magazine

Yet another magazine has seen fit to let me ramble on about Constantine. This time, it’s Paste. In this piece, I focused on some comments by Gavin Rossdale, the lead singer of Bush and the husband of Gwen Stefani, who plays a demon in the film.

Over the Rhine’s new live album

Over the Rhine’s new live album

☠️2025 Update: This post is past its expiration date. The link in the post no longer works. I’m preserving the post for archival purposes. Changes Come, a new live album from Over the Rhine, was available for a few fleeting moments over at Paste. But now the page appears