Great Art

Few people in recent memory have dedicated themselves as devotedly to the story of twentieth-century American music as Rob Kapilow, the composer, conductor, and host of the hit NPR music radio program, What Makes It Great? Now, in Listening for America, he turns his keen ear to the Great American Songbook, bringing many of our favorite classics to life.

In Vitagraph, Andrew A. Erish provides a comprehensive examination and reassessment of the company most responsible for defining and popularizing the American movie. This history challenges long-accepted Hollywood mythology that simply isn't true: that Paramount and Fox invented the feature film, that Universal created the star system, and that these companies, along with MGM and Warner Bros., developed motion pictures into a multimillion-dollar business.

This guide provides introductory and closing commentary for works from many famous classical composers, and includes time-stamped commentary to explain the technical aspects of what is being heard in the piece and the composer's intent in real time. This innovative audiobook enables you to hear both the music and the commentary in parallel.

Michael Krasny has been telling Jewish jokes since his bar mitzvah, and it’s been said that he knows more of them than anyone on the planet. He certainly states his case in this wise, enlightening, and hilarious book that not only collects the best of Jewish humor passed down from generation to generation, but explains the cultural expressions and anxieties behind the laughs.

Hat Nabokovs berühmter Skandalroman Lolita womöglich einen gleichnamigen Vorläufer? Der Berliner Feuilletonist Heinz von Lichberg veröffentlichte 1916 eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, deren eine Erzählung den Titel "Lolita" trägt und in Bezug auf Aufbau und Inhalt verblüffende Ähnlichkeiten zu Nabokovs Roman von 1955 aufweist. Da Nabokov von 1922 bis 1937 in Berlin lebte, könnte man annehmen, dass er von Lichbergs Geschichte kannte. Sind diese Übereinstimmungen bloßer Zufall, Plagiat oder vielleicht das Resultat unbewusster Erinnerung?