Colin Marshall, writing for Open Culture, offers a few Spotify playlists of Anthony Burgess’ piano, chamber, and orchestral music.
Not only that, but the Anthony Burgess Foundation has released his sheet music for free download. I don’t know it at all, but lucky for me, I have fifteen minutes and a piano.
Via Ayun Halliday, on Open Culture
I’m not sure who’d appreciate this more, Györgi Ligeti or Steve Reich. (Or maybe Jonny Greenwood.)
Open Culture has posted the original 1949 radio play adaptation of 1984, starring David Niven. Told, curiously, in the second person. Very cool, though necessarily abridged.
Update: Fortuitous timing. “Alphabet”. I wonder what B.B. stands for.
Josh Jones, writing on Open Culture
Careful McCarthy reader Oprah says she “saw a colon once” in McCarthy’s prose, but she never encountered a semicolon. McCarthy confirms: “No semicolons.”
Of the colon, he says: “You can use a colon, if you’re getting ready to give a list of something that follows from what you just said. Like, these are the reasons.”
I recently read No Country for Old Men and noticed that McCarthy’s approach to punctuation led to an awful lot of “and”s. Still, it’s a good writerly exercise to find ways to say things without all those “weird little symbols”.