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Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, John Ford and John Huston. They were some of the most important filmmakers during Hollywood’s Golden Age. And they were also part of “The Greatest Generation,” the generation that scraped and struggled to bring victory to the Allies during World War II.

The anniversary of John Lennon’s death jogged my memory, reminding me of this lengthy 1970 interview. Conducted by Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone Magazine, this important conversation (listen via iTunes – Feed) was recorded shortly after The Beatles’ bitter breakup.

Appearing in The New Yorker this week is an excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel, The Pale King. It begins:
Once when I was a little boy I received as a gift a toy cement mixer. It was made of wood except for its wheels—axles—which, as I remember, were thin metal rods. I’m ninety per cent sure it was a Christmas gift.

A quick note: Herta Müller, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, delivered her lecture in Stockholm yesterday. You can now read the full text online; the video should be coming soon.
My grandfather had been a soldier in the First World War.

Amazingly today marks the 29th anniversary of John Lennon’s murder in New York City. Below, you can listen to what NYC residents heard on the radio that night. The sound file was originally posted by WFMU’s Beware of the Blog.

The Atlantic Monthly and Amazon/Kindle are hoping so…
PS Note that the “Bestsellers in Kindle” (look in the right column of linked page) all currently cost $0.00.

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The Teaching Company has posted online a free video lecture that focuses on what happens in our brain when we learn — something that should pique the interest of pretty much any reader here.

On Friday, I mentioned that you can now visit the Roman ruins at Pompeii, Stonehenge and Versailles via Google Street View. What I didn’t realize is that this looks to be part of a larger initiative, a larger attempt to provide digital tours of important world heritage sites.