As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman’s perspective on music journalism is unusually well-rounded. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes—identity, money, love, and protest—to explore what makes punk such a liberating art form for women. With her visceral style, Goldman blends interviews, history, and her personal experience as one…

When the neighborhood inventor creates a shrinking machine and accidentally shrinks his own children and their friends, the kids find everyday activities an adventure and a peril. GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“BAHtKoZAQ1EC”, 500,400);

Art of playing the harpsichord GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“Ae3izAEACAAJ”, 500,400);

THE STORY: Maria Callas is teaching a master class in front of an audience (us). She’s glamorous, commanding, larger than life–and drop-dead funny. An accompanist sits at the piano. Callas’ first victim is Sophie, a ridiculous, overly-perky sopra GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“iXGG5zmWKPcC”, 500,400);

The Possum King is set in the fictional town of Clayton, South Carolina, in 1974. The story revolves around the Bishop family as they await the return of family patriarch Frank Bishop, a career soldier who has been away at war in Vietnam. The story is told from the point of view of fourteen-year-old Marcus…

THE STORY: At a beautiful Dutchess County farmhouse, eight men hash out their passions, resentments and fears over the course of three summer weekends. There’s Perry and Arthur, a professional couple of long standing, whose relationship, while stra GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“tp2J7Bp6KeEC”, 500,400);