Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, released recently through McSweeney’s Books a book entitled simply Songbook. This is, like Fever Pitch, strictly non-fiction, a look at some of the songs that Hornby, a former music critic, enjoys, and includes a CD of several of the songs essayed in the book. JustContinue reading “New Nick Hornby”
Daily Archives: February 1, 2003
Khaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
Somehow, in some twisted cosmic way, this is utterly appropriate. I am Khan. Khan Noonien Singh, ruler of one-quarter of the Earth, a gentically engineered superman. Khan. I like that. So says a Star Trek personality test, anyway. “It was only the fact of my genetically engineered intellect that allowed us to survive.”