It's been alarming to watch the truly psychotic things that Danny and his dead eyes have been capable of the last couple episodes. For the last installment, I wrote that Danny was a full-blown monster. One more chapter closer to the end, he's still not ceasing to amaze me in how far he's willing to go to crawl under his family's skin. "Part 11," written by Arthur Phillips, was a master class in crazy, as Danny threatened his niece and, like an emotional zombie, refused to leave the Keys peacefully.The trickiest part about this portion of the series has to have been maintaining a semblance of the Danny we were introduced to in the beginning of the season, while balancing that with the desperation that's fueling his decadent descent. I loved the scene on Danny's bus ride home, in which he's talking to Sarah. The show did a good job...
- 4/3/2015
- by Sean Fitz-Gerald
- Vulture
The black-sheep prophecy has been fulfilled, and you have reason to fear. "There's something off about (Danny)," Diana says. "You don't see him clearly." That's John's problem, and maybe it has been ours, too. Maybe we've given him too much credit. Written by Arthur Phillips, "Part 8" shows a Danny who's lost in the depths of his decadence. When he stares down Diana in her living room, there's a look in his eyes that would have you believe he's a stranger. The way Danny barges into John's home, wakes up his family, and throws his drunk brother under the bus is almost sociopathic.I was floored by some of the darker moments in this episode (directed by Dan Attias), mostly because Danny seems like he's reached the point of no return. Mendelsohn's behind-the-beat lines and drawn-out scenes this episode reinforced that uncomfortable notion — that some insidious plant is blossoming inside him.
- 3/28/2015
- by Sean Fitz-Gerald
- Vulture
Lee Boudreaux, the editorial director of Ecco for the past nine years, is leaving to start her own imprint at Little, Brown. At Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, Ms. Boudreaux acquired and published a string of notable debut novels, including works by Ben Fountain, author of the wartime novel “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” Kevin Wilson, author of “The Family Fang,” a satire about a dysfunctional family of performance artists, and Madeline Miller, who recast “The Iliad” in her novel “The Song of Achilles.
- 4/15/2014
- by Alexandra Alter
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Anjelica
Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Writer: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Producer: Joyce M. Pierpoline
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Jena Malone, Janet McTeer, Ed Stoppard
Well, you should all be excited that Mitchell Lichtenstein has directed another thriller. This is, after all, the man whose directorial debut was 2007’s Teeth (and he followed that up with a great familial black comedy, Happy Tears that featured a superb Ellen Barkin). This time around he has the underrated Jena Malone headlining and chameleonic Janet McTeer. This time Lichtenstein tackles sexual repression at its most virulent, during Victorian era, London.
Gist: Based on the Arthur Phillips novel, this is about a couple living in Victorian London endure an unusual series of psychological and supernatural effects following the birth of their child.
Release Date: While it was not announced at either Sundance or Berlin, where both his other films premiered, respectively, we’re thinking this could...
Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Writer: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Producer: Joyce M. Pierpoline
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Jena Malone, Janet McTeer, Ed Stoppard
Well, you should all be excited that Mitchell Lichtenstein has directed another thriller. This is, after all, the man whose directorial debut was 2007’s Teeth (and he followed that up with a great familial black comedy, Happy Tears that featured a superb Ellen Barkin). This time around he has the underrated Jena Malone headlining and chameleonic Janet McTeer. This time Lichtenstein tackles sexual repression at its most virulent, during Victorian era, London.
Gist: Based on the Arthur Phillips novel, this is about a couple living in Victorian London endure an unusual series of psychological and supernatural effects following the birth of their child.
Release Date: While it was not announced at either Sundance or Berlin, where both his other films premiered, respectively, we’re thinking this could...
- 2/11/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Sucker Punch star Jena Malone is set to star in a psychological ghost-story thriller called Angelica, which is set to be directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein (Teeth, Happy Tears).
The movie actually sounds like it could be really good. It's based on a novel of the same name written by Arthur Phillips (Prague, The Egyptologist). The story is set in the 1880s, and Malone will play a character named Constance, "a young shop girl who falls for and marries Dr. Joseph Barton. After the difficult childbirth of their daughter Angelica, doctor-ordered celibacy creates a rift in the Bartons’ marriage and a ghostly force enters their home."
The movie was also describled as being a "sexually-charged supernatural mystery from multiple perspectives." So it has that going for it. I enjoy watching horror films, and Malone is a talented young actress, she most recently had a role in The History Channel's Hatfields & McCoys.
The movie actually sounds like it could be really good. It's based on a novel of the same name written by Arthur Phillips (Prague, The Egyptologist). The story is set in the 1880s, and Malone will play a character named Constance, "a young shop girl who falls for and marries Dr. Joseph Barton. After the difficult childbirth of their daughter Angelica, doctor-ordered celibacy creates a rift in the Bartons’ marriage and a ghostly force enters their home."
The movie was also describled as being a "sexually-charged supernatural mystery from multiple perspectives." So it has that going for it. I enjoy watching horror films, and Malone is a talented young actress, she most recently had a role in The History Channel's Hatfields & McCoys.
- 3/1/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Jena Malone (Sucker Punch) has agreed to star in Pierpoline Films supernatural thriller, Angelica. According to Deadline, the film is adapted from Arthur Phillips’ 2007 bestselling novel and will be directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein (Happy Tears). Malone will portray Constance, a young shop girl who catches the eye of local doctor Joseph Barton. Joyce Pierpoline (In the Company of Men) and Richard Lormand will handle producing chores involved with bringing the chilling story to the big screen.
- 3/1/2013
- by Kerry Fleming
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Deadline reports that actress Jena Malone, who has had mostly supporting roles, most notably in the miniseries: Hatfields & McCoys and in Suckerpunch will now star in the film adaptation of the ghost story “Angelica”.
Mitchell Lichtenstein (Teeth, Happy Tears) will direct.
Here is a synopsis of the book from the author’s website:
“From the bestselling author of The Egyptologist and Prague comes an equally accomplished and entirely surprising new novel. Angelica is a spellbinding Victorian ghost story, an intriguing literary and psychological puzzle, and a meditation on marriage, childhood, memory, and fear.
The novel opens in London, the 1880’s, and the Barton household is on the brink of collapse. Mother, father, and daughter provoke each other, consciously and unconsciously, and a horrifying crisis is triggered. As the family’s tragedy is told several times from different perspectives, events are recast, and sympathies shift; nothing is at it seems. These...
Mitchell Lichtenstein (Teeth, Happy Tears) will direct.
Here is a synopsis of the book from the author’s website:
“From the bestselling author of The Egyptologist and Prague comes an equally accomplished and entirely surprising new novel. Angelica is a spellbinding Victorian ghost story, an intriguing literary and psychological puzzle, and a meditation on marriage, childhood, memory, and fear.
The novel opens in London, the 1880’s, and the Barton household is on the brink of collapse. Mother, father, and daughter provoke each other, consciously and unconsciously, and a horrifying crisis is triggered. As the family’s tragedy is told several times from different perspectives, events are recast, and sympathies shift; nothing is at it seems. These...
- 3/1/2013
- by Alex Corey
- LRMonline.com
Transcendence
Paul Bettany is in negotiations to star opposite Johnny Depp in the Wally Pfister-directed "Transcendence" at Alcon Entertainment.
The story is being kept under wraps, and Bettany will play a scientist. Shooting kicks off in the spring. [Source: Deadline]
Anchorman: The Legend Continues
Dylan Baker and Meagan Good are set to join the cast of the upcoming sequel to the comedy "Anchorman".
John C. Reilly is also rumored to be making an appearance in the film. Good is set to play Ron Burgundy’s boss. [Source: Deadline]
Planes
Dane Cook will star in Disney's upcoming animated feature "Planes" in the role of a small plane named Dusty.
In the story, Dusty dreams of being a pro racing plane but must overcome both a lack of experience and a fear of heights. [Source: THR]
Angelica
Jena Malone ("Hatfields & McCoys") has scored the lead role in the Mitchell Lichtenstein-helmed, Victorian-era London set psychological thriller "Angelica...
Paul Bettany is in negotiations to star opposite Johnny Depp in the Wally Pfister-directed "Transcendence" at Alcon Entertainment.
The story is being kept under wraps, and Bettany will play a scientist. Shooting kicks off in the spring. [Source: Deadline]
Anchorman: The Legend Continues
Dylan Baker and Meagan Good are set to join the cast of the upcoming sequel to the comedy "Anchorman".
John C. Reilly is also rumored to be making an appearance in the film. Good is set to play Ron Burgundy’s boss. [Source: Deadline]
Planes
Dane Cook will star in Disney's upcoming animated feature "Planes" in the role of a small plane named Dusty.
In the story, Dusty dreams of being a pro racing plane but must overcome both a lack of experience and a fear of heights. [Source: THR]
Angelica
Jena Malone ("Hatfields & McCoys") has scored the lead role in the Mitchell Lichtenstein-helmed, Victorian-era London set psychological thriller "Angelica...
- 3/1/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Arthur Phillips novel Angelica will make the transition to film in the future and the cuteasabutton Jena Malone has been booked to front this ghostly tale. Look for a psychological thriller set in 1880s London from Angelica. Malone is gearing up to play Constance a young shop girl who falls for and marries Dr. Joseph Barton. After the difficult childbirth of their daughter Angelica doctorordered celibacy creates a rift in the Bartons marriage and a ghostly force enters their home.
- 3/1/2013
- Best-Horror-Movies.com
Not even 30 years old yet, Jena Malone has built her career on a variety of complicated characters in challenging movies that often fared better with critics than at the box office. After a strong turn in last year.s Hatfields & McCoys miniseries and a major role in the upcoming Hunger Games sequel, it seemed like Malone might be making her way up the steps to generic stardom, which makes her newest project all the more interesting. Malone will play the lead role in an upcoming adaptation of Arthur Phillips. critically-acclaimed seductive supernatural thriller Angelica, according to Deadline. Angelica will be the next project for director Mitchell Lichtenstein, the man responsible for the middling horror-comedy Teeth and the middling dramatic comedy Happy Tears. Angelica, which takes place in 1880s London, follows Constance (Malone), a shop clerk who falls in love with an older doctor and marries him. The difficult childbirth of...
- 2/28/2013
- cinemablend.com
A new Victorian ghost story is on the way, and honestly, we're pretty happy because we just don't get enough of them. Read on for the very first bits of info on the haunting new tale of Angelica.
According to Deadline, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire's Jena Malone is stepping into the lead to tangle with seductive specters in Victorian England. Mitchell Lichtenstein (Teeth, Happy Tears) is directing Angelica, a psychological thriller set in 1880s London based on the novel of the same name by bestselling author Arthur Phillips (Prague, The Egyptologist).
Malone will play Constance, a young shop girl who falls for and marries Dr. Joseph Barton. After the difficult childbirth of their daughter, Angelica, Malone's character's doctor-ordered celibacy creates a rift in the Bartons’ marriage, and a ghostly force enters their home. Joyce Pierpoline is producing for Pierpoline Films along with Richard Lormand.
Phillips’ 2007 novel Angelica unfolded...
According to Deadline, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire's Jena Malone is stepping into the lead to tangle with seductive specters in Victorian England. Mitchell Lichtenstein (Teeth, Happy Tears) is directing Angelica, a psychological thriller set in 1880s London based on the novel of the same name by bestselling author Arthur Phillips (Prague, The Egyptologist).
Malone will play Constance, a young shop girl who falls for and marries Dr. Joseph Barton. After the difficult childbirth of their daughter, Angelica, Malone's character's doctor-ordered celibacy creates a rift in the Bartons’ marriage, and a ghostly force enters their home. Joyce Pierpoline is producing for Pierpoline Films along with Richard Lormand.
Phillips’ 2007 novel Angelica unfolded...
- 2/28/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” star Jena Malone will be trading in a futuristic battlefield for a creepy Victorian manor in her new film “Angelica”, according to Deadline. In the 19th Century England-set film based on the novel by Arthur Phillips, Malone will play Constance, who marries Dr. Joseph Barton and gives birth to a [...]
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- 2/28/2013
- by Linda Ge
- UpandComers
Mitchell Lichtenstein's 1880s Angelica supernatural thriller based on Arthur Phillips' novel has landed Catching Fire and Hatfield's and McCoys' Jena Malone. According to Deadline, she'll play a young shop girl called Constance who marries Dr. Joseph Barton and goes through a difficult birth with daughter Angelica. Doctor's orders to remain celibate create a rift between the couple, and now a ghost has found its way into the house as well. Pierpoline's Joyce Pierpoline produces with Richard Lormand.
- 2/28/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Jena Malone has signed on to headline Angelica , an adaptation of Arthur Phillips' 2007 bestseller, Deadline reports. The book, a supernatural mystery, is officially described as follows: The novel opens in London, the 1880.s, and the Barton household is on the brink of collapse. Mother, father, and daughter provoke each other, consciously and unconsciously, and a horrifying crisis is triggered. As the family.s tragedy is told several times from different perspectives, events are recast, and sympathies shift; nothing is at it seems. These differing accounts appear to contradict each other, but each one casts new light.and new shadows.on the others, and on the desires and fears that drive these vivid characters. In the dark of night, a chilling sexual spectre is making its...
- 2/28/2013
- Comingsoon.net
He might not be Mr. Susan Sarandon anymore and his last film might have been less than exciting, but Tim Robbins is still a pretty good director. At least, we hope he still is, since we haven’t seen much from him since the late 90s. Good or bad though, he’s now at the helm of new spy thriller titled City of Lies, according to First Showing.
Plotwise, City of Lies will follow a CIA officer and lovely young Czech spy during the Cold War. It’s based on the short story ‘Wencelas Square’ by Arthur Phillips. If that doesn’t do much for you, try this: Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely of Captain America are behind the script. All good news for the developing thriller and Mr. Robbins, who might be a little bit shaky behind the camera after nearly 15 years away.
Robbins previous directorial outings have been outstanding,...
Plotwise, City of Lies will follow a CIA officer and lovely young Czech spy during the Cold War. It’s based on the short story ‘Wencelas Square’ by Arthur Phillips. If that doesn’t do much for you, try this: Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely of Captain America are behind the script. All good news for the developing thriller and Mr. Robbins, who might be a little bit shaky behind the camera after nearly 15 years away.
Robbins previous directorial outings have been outstanding,...
- 8/9/2012
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
Tim Robbins, eternally affable in the face of the fact that he will always be Andy Dufresne, is heading behind the camera for the first time since 1999's Cradle Will Rock. He'll direct City of Lies, an adaptation of an Arthur Phillips short story. Though Robbins has stayed away from feature directing since his trio of films in the nineties, he did direct a season-two episode of Treme and has another coming in season three.
- 8/9/2012
- by Zach Dionne
- Vulture
Seeing as it’s been some 13 years since Tim Robbins helmed a feature — it’d be interesting to know how many younger people even knew he had a brief career in the field — something special must be contained within City of Lies. According to THR, the actor will get his fourth feature down with Endgame’s adaptation of the Arthur Phillips-penned Cold War story, which has been scripted by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (Captain America, Pain and Gain).
The short appeared on a 2007 episode of This American Life, leading host Ira Glass, along with Alissa Shipp, to find himself attached as a producer since 2009. (Philip Noyce was the last signed helmer, in case that means anything to you.) In it, a younger member of the CIA finds himself romantically entangled with a Czech agent — and things can only get knotty from there.
I’ve yet to read Phillips‘ little tome or,...
The short appeared on a 2007 episode of This American Life, leading host Ira Glass, along with Alissa Shipp, to find himself attached as a producer since 2009. (Philip Noyce was the last signed helmer, in case that means anything to you.) In it, a younger member of the CIA finds himself romantically entangled with a Czech agent — and things can only get knotty from there.
I’ve yet to read Phillips‘ little tome or,...
- 8/9/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Tim Robbins is set to make a return to big screen directing with a feature adaptation of Arthur Phillips' short story "Wenceslas Square." The Hollywood Reporter brings word that the production will move forward under the title City of Lies . Published in 2003 in the anthology "Wild East: Stories from the Last Frontier," Phillips' tale is set in Czechoslovakia at the end of the Cold War and involves a love story between two spies. It was featured in a 2007 episode of "This American Life," which you can listen to in its entirety by clicking here . Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely will provide the screenplay with James D. Stern, Ira Glass and Alissa Shipp producing and Douglas E. Hansen executive producing. Robbins previously directed the...
- 8/8/2012
- Comingsoon.net
A newly-married couple have been jailed after stealing the food for their wedding reception. 32-year-old Arthur Phillips III and his 22-year-old wife Brittany Lurch were arrested last weekend after being caught on CCTV stealing from a supermarket in State College, Pennsylvania. The pair took a shopping trolley and filled it with over $$1,000 worth of items before exiting the shop without (more)...
- 8/29/2011
- by By Tom Ayres
- Digital Spy
Barbi Reed Arthur Phillips
In his latest book, “The Tragedy of Arthur,” Brooklyn-based author Arthur Phillips mines Shakespeare’s words to consider the roles of originality and authenticity in art. In the novel, protagonist Arthur Phillips is handed a previously unknown play allegedly written by Shakespeare in 1597. The catch? It’s bequeathed to him by his dying father, a con artist who’s spent years in jail.
Adding to the meta layers, the Bard play unearthed in the novel was actually written by Mr.
In his latest book, “The Tragedy of Arthur,” Brooklyn-based author Arthur Phillips mines Shakespeare’s words to consider the roles of originality and authenticity in art. In the novel, protagonist Arthur Phillips is handed a previously unknown play allegedly written by Shakespeare in 1597. The catch? It’s bequeathed to him by his dying father, a con artist who’s spent years in jail.
Adding to the meta layers, the Bard play unearthed in the novel was actually written by Mr.
- 5/16/2011
- by Julie Steinberg
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Director Bill Condon (pictured above to the right) has covered a pretty wide gamut of films throughout his career, with work such as Candyman: Farewell To The Flesh, Gods And Monsters, Kinsey, and Dreamgirls. Two of those are legitimately great films (and no, not Candyman). But it seems the filmmaker, along with his Dreamgirls producer Larry Mark (pictured above to the left), will be dipping back into the musical game both writing and directing an adaptation of the Arthur Phillips novel...
- 2/13/2010
- by George Merchan
- JoBlo.com
The New Yorker has a feature article about the out gospel singer Tonex. The summary is all that’s available online, for the full article you have to subscribe. I don’t, because The New Yorker makes me feel dumb.
Those of you that don’t like 3D are just out of luck. Out director Roland Emmerich has begun planning his Foundation trilogy based on the iconic science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov, and he says he’s going the 3D, motion capture Avatar route.
TheaterMania.com has announced the full list of entertainers for the annual Broadway Backwards 5 fundraiser. Florence Henderson will host, and will feature out performers such as Bruce Vilanch, Mario Cantone, and AfterElton.com favorite (O.K., favorite of this blogger at least) Nick Adams.
You know the People of Walmart? Well, this isn’t about them, precisely, but this guy was in Walmart, went to sporting goods,...
Those of you that don’t like 3D are just out of luck. Out director Roland Emmerich has begun planning his Foundation trilogy based on the iconic science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov, and he says he’s going the 3D, motion capture Avatar route.
TheaterMania.com has announced the full list of entertainers for the annual Broadway Backwards 5 fundraiser. Florence Henderson will host, and will feature out performers such as Bruce Vilanch, Mario Cantone, and AfterElton.com favorite (O.K., favorite of this blogger at least) Nick Adams.
You know the People of Walmart? Well, this isn’t about them, precisely, but this guy was in Walmart, went to sporting goods,...
- 2/12/2010
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
"Dreamgirls" director Bill Condon and producer Larry Mark are re-teaming for the dark comedy/romance musical "The Song is You" for Focus Features says Deadline Hollywood.
Based on the Arthur Phillips novel, the story is a kind of "Once" meets "A Star is Born" story of a man who ties in key events of his life with certain songs.
After his family falls apart and he thinks music has lost its hold on him, he finds a renewal in his budding romance with a rising flame-haired Irish rock singer even though the pair have never actually met. As feelings grow, the distance between them becomes impossible to maintain.
Condon will write the script and direct the project. No word as yet on a production date.
Based on the Arthur Phillips novel, the story is a kind of "Once" meets "A Star is Born" story of a man who ties in key events of his life with certain songs.
After his family falls apart and he thinks music has lost its hold on him, he finds a renewal in his budding romance with a rising flame-haired Irish rock singer even though the pair have never actually met. As feelings grow, the distance between them becomes impossible to maintain.
Condon will write the script and direct the project. No word as yet on a production date.
- 2/12/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
After collaborating on the musical award magnet Dreamgirls, director Bill Condon and producer Larry Mark took on the awards in a different way last year when they worked with Hugh Jackman for a slew of musical numbers for the Academy Awards telecast. If the subsequent awards show ratings boost was any indicator, the duo know how to put together one hell of an entertaining musical show, so it's no surprise that Deadline Hollywood reports Condon and Mark will collaborate again by adapting the Arthur Phillips novel The Song is You (Amazon) into a film that isn't exactly a musical, but more of a "music-infused film." The story focuses on the unusual relationship that develops between a middle-aged commercials director who fixates on a young woman he hears singing at a bar one night. It becomes a tenuous romance despite the fact they’ve never met. But the way Condon talks...
- 2/11/2010
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: With no Oscarcast to worry about this year, Bill Condon and Larry Mark have had time to set up another musical. I’ve learned that the Dreamgirls duo are turning the Arthur Phillips novel The Song Is You into a music-infused film. Condon will write the script and direct it for Focus Features, in co-production with Random House Films under the deal the publisher has with the specialty house. Mark is producing. Published last year by Random House, The Song Is You is about the unusual relationship that develops between a middle-aged commercials director who fixates on a young woman [...]...
- 2/11/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline Hollywood
Dreamgirls director Bill Condon and producer Larry Mark are teaming on another musical based on the Arthur Phillips novel The Song is You . Condon will write the script and direct for Focus Features. The following is how publisher Random House describes the book: Julian Donahue is in love with his iPod. Each song that shuffles through .that greatest of all human inventions. triggers a memory. There are songs for the girls from when he was single; there.s the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, and another for the day his son was born. But when his family falls apart, even music loses its hold on him, and he has nothing. Until one snowy night in Brooklyn, when his life.s soundtrack.and life itself.starts to play again. He stumbles into a bar and sees Cait O.Dwyer, a...
- 2/11/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Can't get no satisfaction
Some books, like some songs, invade you slowly. Arthur Phillips’ The Song is You doesn’t rely on a hook but rather on a thousand little barbs of recognition. It’s a story about nostalgia—dreams that petered out while we were off doing other things. Main character Julian’s life is consumed with trying to recapture the years when he felt most alive. He eventually finds a woman who rekindles all those “what ifs,” but avoids meeting her, wanting to prolong the exquisite pleasure of expectation. Julian’s inaction reaches Hamlet-like proportions, but the book is also strangely suspenseful: His conflicting desires are familiar, and we ultimately feel we have a stake in his decisions. Phillips’ song-studded prose will make you ache to hear old favorites, make you dig up that song you used to cue up on Friday nights before you went looking for adventure.
Some books, like some songs, invade you slowly. Arthur Phillips’ The Song is You doesn’t rely on a hook but rather on a thousand little barbs of recognition. It’s a story about nostalgia—dreams that petered out while we were off doing other things. Main character Julian’s life is consumed with trying to recapture the years when he felt most alive. He eventually finds a woman who rekindles all those “what ifs,” but avoids meeting her, wanting to prolong the exquisite pleasure of expectation. Julian’s inaction reaches Hamlet-like proportions, but the book is also strangely suspenseful: His conflicting desires are familiar, and we ultimately feel we have a stake in his decisions. Phillips’ song-studded prose will make you ache to hear old favorites, make you dig up that song you used to cue up on Friday nights before you went looking for adventure.
- 5/13/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
The Song Is You isn’t the first book to wax rhapsodic about the powers and pleasures of the lowly iPod, but it may be the best. Arthur Phillips’ fourth novel balances an unconventional romance on the relationship between a musician and a listener. In spite of its terrestrial touches, the relationship occurs almost entirely in the digital realm; the premise’s whimsy is immediately recognizable to anyone who has staked out a particular tune as his own. For Julian Donahue, an advertising director without ambitions to be much more, music is the one thing that hasn’t yet failed ...
- 4/9/2009
- avclub.com
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