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A Perfect Little Death by SUF/SOND - GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS will release the new album A Perfect Little Death by SUF/SOND the brainchild of New York singer/songwriter Eleri Ward in streaming and digital formats on Friday, June 4. SUF/SOND is a whirling combination of Ward s two deep loves: the expansive one-of-a-kind canon of Stephen Sondheim, and the ethereal, melancholic sounds of Sufjan Stevens. Blossoming from a spontaneous Instagram cover of Every Day a Little Death captioned Sufjan on Sondheim...

“Swimming to Freedom: My Escape From China and the Cultural Revolution” by Kent Wong; Harry N. Abrams (320 pages, $26) ——— China was in chaos. For a decade, Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution deliberately smashed society to bits. People were sent away for brutal re-education. Others simply disappeared. The country was destroying itself, and for many, only one hope remained: Getting out. ...

“Swimming to Freedom: My Escape From China and the Cultural Revolution” by Kent Wong; Harry N. Abrams (320 pages, $26) ——— China was in chaos. For a decade, Mao Zedong’s

“Swimming to Freedom: My Escape From China and the Cultural Revolution” by Kent Wong; Harry N. Abrams (320 pages, $26) ——— China was in chaos. For a decade, Mao Zedong’s

Jacqueline Cutler, New York Daily News “Swimming to Freedom: My Escape From China and the Cultural Revolution” by Kent Wong; Harry N. Abrams (320 pages, $26) ——— China was in chaos. For a decade, Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution deliberately smashed society to bits. People were sent away for brutal re-education. Others simply disappeared. The country was destroying itself, and for many, only one hope remained: Getting out. “Swimming to Freedom: My ...

Join the Idler for a chat with comedian Viv Groskop, Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson and philosopher Mark Vernon

“Swimming to Freedom: My Escape From China and the Cultural Revolution” is Kent Wong’s memoir of the Maoist re-education times. And how those years drove desperate people to try anything – including swimming the six miles to Hong Kong.

Michael Leviton grew up in a household where speaking your mind and being truthful were the highest virtues. But once he became an adult, Leviton couldn’t pass off his brazenness as being an eccentric child. He had to deal with the consequences of his truths.

Join When Linda Cozby (soon to be Wertheimer) — a Wellesley scholarship student graduate who still missed the enchiladas of her native New Mexico — got a minor job at New York radio station WCBS in 1969, she was happy. She had long wanted to be in broadcasting, and, “as a self-described flat-chested brainy ‘dark’ woman who didn’t wear makeup,” she realized that radio, rather than television, fit her. But when she saw how the two “brave, aggressive, ferocious” on-air women rep...

As fans are getting ready for the release of Mac Miller’s book, The Book of Mac: Remembering Mac Miller to drop this October, they have learned that another biography is not a part of the plan.  According to reports, Miller’s estate denounced the project and claims that it is not authorized by them. Journalist Paul Cantor is currently working on the biography called, “ Most Dope: The Extraordinary Life Of Mac Miller.  In a statement shared through a publicity company, Orienteer’s Nic...