Ergebnis für "Graves" in Unterhaltung & Stars

From the author of Madame Restell and Get Well Soon, a biography of Mamie Fish that explores how women used parties and social gatherings to gain power and prestige. Marion Graves Anthon Fish, known by the nicknames “Mamie” and “The Fun-Maker,” threw the most epic parties in American...

This diligent study of Johnson's life debunks these myths while emphasizing the effect that Robert Johnson, said to be the greatest blues musician who ever lived, has had on modern musicians such as Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones and fans of the blues. Tom Graves, a master of what Ernest Hemingway called "the true sentence" and the telling detail, pieces together the fragments of the jagged, elusive puzzle that is Robert Johnson.

No son pocos los [músicos] que confían la redacción de sus memorias a un escriba con el fin de relatar cuanto pervive en los recuerdos del artista. Remembranzas que agrandan su significado con el paso del tiempo, y es que Afinando al alba fue escrita en los albores de este milenio por este inefable impresor, músico, corresponsal, fotógrafo, gastronauta, ensayista y etnógrafo, con el fin de informar —y alertar— al lector británico sobre los misterios de la idiosincrasia española y otras particularidades de la cultura insular, a través de la música popular.

The star of Bravo’s breakout scripted comedy Odd Mom Out shares her razor-sharp wit and backhanded wisdom in a deeply observed and outrageously funny collection of musings, lists, essays, and outrages. From her unique lingo (things don’t simply frighten her, they “M. Night Shyamalan her...