Wednesday, September 14, 2011

day job

The Guardian interviews Ian Bostridge on his latest book, A Singer's Notebook, presently forthcoming. It stands a good chance of bumping a few things down a peg in the To Be Read stacks of the Thirdfloorian Library, as soon as we can get our mitts on a copy. (Currently Amazon (US) is only listing his dissertation on witchcraft, which has its own temptations but also an institutional price tag. [sigh])

Update: Yay Powell's, as always.

Singer's Notebook
by Ian Bostridge
Powells.com

2 comments:

  1. Wha'? He publishes books? He has a graduate degree? His dissertation was about witchcraft?!

    MAD RUSH TO AMAZON AND LIBRARY CATALOGUE

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  2. The secret life of tenors...

    I suppose I should be careful about the word "latest", because actually I think it's just the two, with the latter being collected scribblings. I thought he had published a big book of lieder but now I see he just wrote the foreword to someone else's big book of lieder.

    And yes, witchcraft, or as I understand the gist of it, the evolution of public attitudes thereto, round about the time of the Royal Society's inaugural huzzah... Kewl.

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