Books

The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock ‘N’ Roll by Ian S. Port (Scribner, $37)

“They must have amused each other – so similar were they, yet so different. If not for their overlapping fascination with amplification and musical instruments, they might not have become friends.” -from The Birth of Loud by Ian S. Port (page 34) For my fourteenth birthday my father drove me to a music store on […]

Books

Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong (Simon & Schuster, $35)

“David’s penchant for using real names and real-life stories in Seinfeld scripts, week after week, without any effort to conceal constructed a third dimension:  There was reality; there was television; and there was Seinfeldia, where the elements of both comingled, passed through, and, as the show’s audience grew, enticed fans into feeling like this was […]

Books Film/TV

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes with Joe Layden (Simon & Schuster, $32)

  By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “…The Princess Bride has aged remarkably well.  I think this is in part because of the quality of the writing, the directing, and the wonderful ensemble of actors I had the sheer pleasure of working with.” -Cary Elwes Not many people are aware that the motion pictures The […]