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Public Service Announcement: School of Velocity - Burning Books Format Changes
August 09, 2016 12:00 - 25 minutes - 2.15 MBImportant news from Eric! Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. http://litopia.com/shows/burn/
For The Love of Film
April 06, 2016 12:11 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBHow To Make A Movie: Have a great idea. Write a screenplay. Offer it to Hollywood (this step may take sixteen years waiting tables) Sell your soul (i.e. tarnish your great idea with two nudes, an astronaut, graphic sex, two vampires and three fart jokes) Watch the whole thing get mothballed and die in pre-production. (Despite promises to the contrary, Johnny Depp will not be involved) But there is another way... Tonight we welcome into the studio three authors, three film buffs,...
The Dirty Dictionary
April 05, 2016 11:05 - 25 minutes - 30.2 MBIt’s not just Microsoft’s teen chatbot that’s got a potty mouth... no less an august publication than the Oxford English Dictionary has gone all street, too. Plus... To boldly go where no copyright suit has gone before... The Last Unicorn author locks legal horns with his manager... Fox sued over ‘Empire’... and Trump sued author "to make his life miserable". The latest news, gossip and comment from the sharp end of the publishing world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London...
The Sensitive Billionaire
April 05, 2016 10:05 - 25 minutes - 27.4 MBThe latest news, gossip and comment from the sharp end of the publishing world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes
Salman Rushdie & Sherlock Homeboy
March 06, 2016 19:05 - 25 minutes - 21.8 MBAll the latest news and gossip from the legal end of the publishing world, brought to you by Donna and Peter. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes
Dark Hunter Vs Shadowhunter
February 21, 2016 16:55 - 25 minutes - 26.2 MBAll the latest news and gossip from the legal end of the publishing world, brought to you by Donna and Peter. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes
The Ruts
February 14, 2016 21:19 - 55.7 MBShortly after the NME announced that punk was dead, The Ruts came along and proved that it wasn’t. Their driving, reggae-infused punk embodied the whole late 70s Rock Against Racism ideal. And their amazing anthems, such as Babylon’s Burning, Staring At the Rude Boys and Something That I Said carried them into the charts and into the hearts of a generation…before tragedy struck. The Ruts story is told at length in Love In Vain - a massive tome written by Roland Link with a foreword by Henr...
The Icelandic Book Flood
February 14, 2016 14:57 - 1 hour - 56 MBWhat the hell is going on with publishing? Lots of empty opinion, hype, doom saying and general noise. Cutting through to the signal is difficult – but heck, that’s what LAD does best! So tonight, we bring you an author, a leading industry expert and a publishing rain-maker (oh yes) to cut through the cacophony and tell us exactly what’s going on. Hint: it’s not all bad news. While a quarter of all Americans didn’t read a single book last year (you know who you are) over in Icel...
New York Times: War Is Beautiful – Or We’ll Sue You
February 09, 2016 12:02 - 25 minutes - 20.1 MBAll the latest news and gossip from the legal end of the publishing world, brought to you by Donna and Peter. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes
The Adversary – Emmanuel Carrère
February 08, 2016 19:23 - 25 minutes - 13.7 MBIn the quiet Jura region of France, a physician goes completely haywire in a series of crimes that are hard for his friends and acquaintances to grasp. But then their grasp loosens further. And disappears altogether. Because the man at the centre, the man they thought they knew, turns out to be a dangerous and violent stranger. And now I know what it feels like to write a Dateline teaser. Non-fiction. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction...
Just A Man And His Will To Survive
February 07, 2016 19:18 - 25 minutes - 29.2 MBAll the latest news and gossip from the legal end of the publishing world, brought to you by Donna and Peter. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes
My Name is Asher Lev – Chaim Potok
January 10, 2016 18:41 - 25 minutes - 16.7 MBTender Asher Lev has a gift – he can draw exceptionally well – and a drive to be an artist. Everyone around him has a drive to make him into a leader in the Ladover Hasidic community, spreading the word of Ladover Hasidism to the far corners of the world. Something has to give. It gives. A story that starts very well. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books ...
The Year's Midnight
December 30, 2015 20:33 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBAs the winter solstice passes, Litopia After Dark becomes Litopia After Darker. it's time for festive cheer, certainly. But it's also the moment when the fabric (sorry) between our nightmares and our waking world is at its thinnest. A time for cosy hibernation, yes-- but also fear, depression and real-life demons. Especially in the days of glowing rectangles when the lights never completely go out. Jessica’s extraordinary handiwork is on display at most Royal weddings To help navigate th...
Money, Medicine & Marijuana
December 24, 2015 16:31 - 1 hour - 58 MBThis year Colorado is expected to generate $125 million in tax revenue from legal marijuana sales. In the first full year of legalization Colorado homicide rates have dropped by 24%. Medically, the (preliminary) research is in: while cannabis has been shown to have deleterious effects on developing minds, it has also been proven to treat a whole host of medical conditions. Dr. Adam Winstock Still, many people remain staunchly opposed to legalization. In the United States, where pot is s...
Morality Play – Barry Unsworth
December 18, 2015 14:07 - 25 minutes - 13.7 MBMonk on the run in 14th Century England has more to worry about than building himself a time machine to get out of 14th Century England. Obviously kidding about the sci-fi bit because this is Barry Unsworth. The book is the time machine. The moral of the story is less story, more moral. Photo Douglas R Witt Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates ...
Latecomers – Anita Brookner
December 01, 2015 21:16 - 25 minutes - 15.8 MBHartmann and Fibitch arrived in England as refugees on the Kindertransport and then they had had wives and children and those children had families and – what was the point of this story again? Served (saved?) with a side of Sebald (how can you not) plus the flavour of Rushforth, which is the name of an author. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separat...
Ripped Off By The BBC?
November 27, 2015 11:36 - 25 minutes - 21.6 MBThe BBC – the world’s oldest and biggest public service broadcaster – appears to have a serious ethics problem. That’s the devastating conclusion from this edition of The DEBRIEFER. How else could you explain the plight of bestselling author and screenwriter M.R. Hall, whose THE CORONER series of books bears a striking similarity to the BBC’s a new television series entitled – somewhat unimaginatively – THE CORONER. Listeners to THE DEBRIEFER will be familiar with horrific accounts of rapa...
In Godden We Trust: Meet The Mae West Of The Spoken Word Scene
October 12, 2015 10:00 - 52.8 MBTo mark National Poetry Day, Garry’s guest tonight is one of the brightest and most brilliant of British poets – Salena Godden. Funny, poignant, outrageous and guileless, Salena is every inch a successful 21st century poet. Includes selections from her anthology Fishing In The Aftermath featuring the immortal My Tits Are More Feminist Than Your Tits ( the world premiere exclusive to GBH!), A Letter To An Air Stewardess Found In The Back Of Seat 67 as well as Salena reading from her autobio...
Women Who Rock - Pride, Passion & Prejudice
October 08, 2015 12:19 - 45.9 MBStrong female artists have been a part of pop and rock since the beginning: incredible singers from Etta James and Janice Joplin to Adele and Paramore’s Hayley Williams have wowed the world with their talent. But for many it’s been an uphill battle, fighting exploitation and ingrained attitudes. Joining Garry tonight to discuss this fraught subject are three very different performers – Dominique Olliver, Danie Cox and Kristina Oberzan. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes ...
Steve Diggle - Still A Buzz, Cock
October 07, 2015 11:00 - 62.2 MBMancunian Steve Diggle is the guitarist and singer songwriter with the Buzzcocks… the seminal punk band who infiltrated the charts with brilliant, infectious songs such as ‘Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t)’, ‘Promises’ and ‘Harmony In My Head’ – back at a time when punk really did want to subvert mainstream music. Tonight’s show is a tour-de-force of punks on tour. The Buzzcocks opened for the Sex Pistols at Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall, performed at the 100 Club punk...
The Scapegoat – Sophia Nikolaidou
October 02, 2015 19:46 - 25 minutes - 13.3 MBThe real life murder mystery of a CBS reporter is foreground and backdrop for a modern day high school student trying to figure out why the wrong man was put down. Also a love story. Salonic. Picture: George Laoutaris Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craf...
Of Headscarves & Hymens: A Candid Conversation With Mona Eltahawy
September 27, 2015 16:05 - 1 hour - 69 MB"When more than 90% of ever-married women in Egypt -- including my mother and all but one of her six sisters -- have had their genitals cut in the name of modesty, then surely we must all blaspheme... to hell with political correctness." So wrote tonight's guest, Egyptian journalist and women's right's activist Mona Eltahawy in her explosive Foreign Policy magazine article Why Do They Hate Us?-- "us" being women and "they" being Arab men. Her rage was fueled by personal experience: in Nove...
Little Man, What Now? – Hans Fallada
September 06, 2015 07:07 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBPinneberg is the Little Man; What Now is what everyone is asking at the outset of the Depression, when this novel is set. Fallada’s novel is about the piece by piece destruction of a young man by forces that are both incomprehensibly great and pathetically familiar, from the collapse of the world economy to the failure of basic decency. I’m overwhelmed just writing this ditty. But that’s what you get when you read Hans Fallada. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent ...
Patti Boulaye: From Strife To Stardom
September 01, 2015 19:30 - 55.1 MBGarry’s guest tonight Patti Boulaye shot to fame on ITV’s talent show New Faces. But hers is not a normal showbiz story. Nigerian-born Patti lived through one of the worst genocides of the 20th century, growing up during the horrific Biafran civil war where one million people died either in fighting or from famine. Patti emigrated to London at 16, where she became an actress by accident… and a star through her pure talent. On tonight’s GBH, you’ll have an intimate encounter with a huge s...
Serial Killers of the World Unite!
August 24, 2015 17:35 - 25 minutes - 12.3 MBLawks a-mercy! Whatever would we do without Florida? Florida principal tries to quietly ban book to appease Christians -- sets off sh*tstorm instead The ‘Real’ Cookie Lyons Sues ‘Empire’ For $300 Million, Claiming Fox Series Is Based on Her Life Why do introverted writers have to schmooze? Alleged serial killer threatens to sue TV judge over book Follow ups: Millions for murder? Charlie Hebdo has an interesting problem Yahoo employee admits leak to author, settles suit Download the ...
Frost - Thomas Bernhard
August 13, 2015 10:23 - 25 minutes - 14.8 MBMedical intern sent by boss to spy on a painter named of Strauch. What the intern finds is the gaping wound of Lower Austria, which may or may not stand in for the entire world. Extremely bleak. Extremely funny. Basically, extreme in all senses. Photo: Florin Draghici Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, lo...
Gender Discrimination in Publishing
August 09, 2015 13:26 - 25 minutes - 14.8 MBSome new research, anecdotal but telling, suggests that female writers have a much tougher time getting their book proposals into agents’ hands than male authors do. What’s the truth behind this? Plus all the latest news from the crazy/weird nexus where publishing meets the law… Homme de Plume: What I Learned Sending My Novel Out Under a Male Name Hamilton Ends Deal with SMP Claiming Lack of Support Florida Parents Try to Ban Books With Characters That Pray to Non-Christian God Freelanc...
The Cargo Cult of Europe
August 08, 2015 16:56 - 50.5 MBHow are you going to vote in the forthcoming Euro-referendum? Conventional wisdom says that if you’re on the political right wing, you’ll probably vote against staying in the EU, and if you’re to the left, you’ll probably vote in favour of staying. Well, Garry’s guest tonight, Brian Denny of the RMT Union, has got some mind-opening surprises in store for you. “The EU means fascism at home”, says Brian, “and war abroad.” So he’s in Nigel Farage’s camp, then? By no means. UKIP comes acros...
The Hard Conversation
August 01, 2015 18:31 - 1 hour - 78.8 MBLITOPIA AFTER DARK is back! And in typical style, our first guest for the new season spent four nights in a freezing cave in Tora Bora interviewing none other than Osama bin Laden. How’s that for openers? But that’s far from Abdel Bari Atwan’s only claim to fame. Born in Gaza, he is one of the world’s leading authorities on al-Qa’ida. Indeed, he wrote the definite book on the subject – The Secret History of al-Qa’ida. At a moment when the West seems poised for yet more intervention in a ...
Flexipop - When Plastic Was Fantastic!
July 31, 2015 16:12 - 47.9 MBIf you can remember the nineteen eighties... you probably weren’t there. Barry Cain was – and he’s got 27 incredible issues of Flexipop magazine to prove it! It was a publishing phenomenon. Launched in 1980 by Barry and Tim Lott, every issue came with a flexible music disc. Flexipop was an overnight success rapidly reaching sales of more than 100,000... but it only lasted for 27 issues before it folded in 1983. Why? Get out your flares and big hair extensions... tonight, we’re gonna party...
Master Georgie – Beryl Bainbridge
July 24, 2015 16:46 - 25 minutes - 11.8 MBSpare parts make up the engine of this rickety ride from here to there. One solipsistic young man from England leads friends and acquaintances to Crimea, and for some reason they follow him. With allusions to Nicholson Baker and Peter Carey, this episode also features a drop from Masterchef Australia, which is what I’m into these days. The plating was not successful. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosoph...
When Garry Met Steven Berkoff
July 24, 2015 15:29 - 59.8 MBThere is only one Steven Berkoff. Perhaps there’s only room for one. What happens when an enfant terrible of the British theatre grows up? They become Steven Berkoff, that’s what. Prepare yourself for an encounter like no other. Bad boy Berkoff is every bit as bad as you’ve heard, and then some. But in this searingly honest encounter with Garry, he bares the soul of a great actor. “Great actors are stupid” he spits out, contemptuously. Typical Berkoff. Uncensored, unrestrained, unleashe...
A Gronking We’d Rather Forget
July 10, 2015 15:29 - 25 minutes - 11.3 MBLinks to stories mentioned in this show... A Gronking To Remember Suit Gets Strange While Amazon Argues Liability Would Chill Speech And Art Mom’s Story Of Raising ‘Princess Boy’ Facing Library Censorship - Gay Star News Florida Man, Accused Of Terrorism Based On Book Collection, Set Free - The Intercept Brussels Tries To Ban Selfies At Tourist Landmarks; Need Permission To Photograph Eiffel Tower? Europe Is Not Banning Tourist Photos Of The London Eye, Says Eu Blog Follow-ups: Appe...
Out of It
July 10, 2015 11:39 - 25 minutes - 12.5 MBLinks mentioned in the show: After 800 years, Britain finally asks: Do we need a written constitution? Amazon is going to start paying authors according to how many pages people read Authors Guild Announces 'Fair Contract' Initiative Simply Read Books Faces Complaints of Late Payments, Breached Contracts SCOTUS rules in favor of man convicted of posting threatening messages on Facebook Follow ups: Sirius Beats Fla. Case Over Pre-1972 Songs Brian Williams to Stay at NBC, but Not as N...
The German Mujahid – Boualem Sansal
July 02, 2015 17:47 - 25 minutes - 21.3 MBA history of one aspect of the Nazi genocide is brought to present day Parisian suburbs via a massacre in an Algerian village. Extremism, integration, ghettos, religion – all the elements are refashioned to their new context. A memorably good book by an excellent writer and thinker. Fresh. Photo - John Perivolaris Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books se...
The Golden Years of British TV Comedy
June 24, 2015 14:52 - 65.4 MBFrom The Two Ronnies to Blackadder…from Benny Hill to Marty Feldman… the golden years of British television comedy produced some of the funniest shows and larger-than-life characters the world has ever seen. Garry’s guest tonight COLIN EDMONDS has dominated British television comedy writing for four decades – and he knew them all… the stars, the monsters, the legends and the lunatics! Click to buy from Amazon If names such as Les Dawson, Lilly Savage, Paul Daniels, Julian Clary, Barbara ...
The Luzhin Defense – Vladimir Nabokov
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
May 15, 2015 15:55 - 25 minutes - 11.5 MBCan’t seem to shake the memoirs thing . . . This time it’s James Joyce writing about himself as the character Stephen Dedalus, a precocious, self-regarding artiste who one day is destined to become James Joyce. Not necessary. Photo by ☰☵ Michele M. F. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasur...
A Gronking To Remember
May 15, 2015 13:26 - 25 minutes - 13.9 MBRandom House told it should pay to quote Joseph Goebbels in biography Hugo award nominees withdraw amid 'Puppygate' storm Charlie Hebdo Honor Sparks Controversy Amazon sued over Gronking book cover photo Screenwriter SLAPPs Down Libel-in-Fiction Claim 'Huge inequality' in writer earnings Journalists face increasing dangers Courtney Love Is Sued by Co-Writer of Her Memoir Follow ups: Disney Beats 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Copyright Lawsuit Photo of Gronk by Megan Asbeck >>>>>...
John Moloney – Choosing Not To Play The Accordion
May 10, 2015 15:58 - 43.6 MBGarry is joined in the studio by the award-winning stand-up comedian John Moloney (twice won Best Live Performer at the London Comedy Festival) whose four-part Radio 4 series The John Moloney Show kicks off on Tuesday 12th May. Influenced by Les Dawson, Dave Allen, The Jam and West Ham United, John’s stand-up comedy is a finely crafted blend of wordplay, one-liners and cat molesting. His radio producer says that observing him at work is “like watching a masterclass unfold. He’s like a con...
Terry Alderton – The Voices In My Head
April 27, 2015 14:10 - 58.4 MBGarry’s guest tonight is Terry Alderton, one of Britain’s most exciting comedians and a man Frank Skinner dubbed “a flipping genius”… only he didn’t say flipping. Famous for his roles in TV hits such as EastEnders and London’s Burning, Terry’s first love was Southend United Football Club – he played in goal for their youth team – but the stage was where he really scored. Terry’s gift for mimicry made him a rising star in what we used to call old school mainstream comedy. But his originali...
Deaf Sentence – David Lodge
April 24, 2015 15:18 - 25 minutes - 21.5 MBAuthor David Lodge stars as his thinly disguised protagonist, Old Man Bates, who is entering retirement, uselessness, and, worst of all, permanent deafness, in this tragi-comi-tragic tale of David Lodge, starring as his protagonist. Largely good. Picture by clogsilk >>> Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy,...
Breaking Bard
April 20, 2015 15:57 - 51.5 MBIn the early 80s, Britain’s pubs and clubs were full of angry, funny, working class poets inspired by punk, reggae and protest. This brave new wave of radical wordsmiths made folk heroes of Seething Wells, Garry Johnson, Ginger John, Attila The Stockbroker, Porky the Poet and one of Garry’s guests today Tim Wells – all of whom will be celebrated next month at the British Library’s Taking Liberties event, ‘Ranting poets, 'zines & Angry Kids of the ’80s’. Tim is also the founding editor of ...
France A La Mod - or, A Beer in Provence
April 06, 2015 10:30 - 55 minutes - 61 MBIt's Easter, everybody! Time for daffodils... daylight savings... and life-sized chocolate statues of Benedict Cumberbatch. So how about we put aside Ebola, Somalian jihad, narcotraficantes, the heart-wrenching demise of a literary titan-- not to mention the greatest extinction event in the history of planet earth. Let's leave those topics for past and future shows, shall we? (We've got a rip-roarin' summer planned for Litopia After Dark!) Instead let's chat with dyed-in-the-mohair mod Ia...
Iguanas On The Roof...
April 03, 2015 21:17 - 25 minutes - 16.5 MBNew Class Action Suit Filed Against Penguin Random House Author Solutions’ Deceptive Practices Florida gone wild: Columnist Daniel Tilson gets harassed by police for using Beatles lyric In Florida, officials ban term 'climate change' Marvin Gaye's heirs win $7.4 million for 'Blurred Lines' plagiarism “Blurred Lines”: Society’s Mixed Signals on Copying and Intellectual Property Rights 'Blurred Lines' verdict could alter music industry Oprah Winfrey Wins Tough Trademark Fight Over “...
A Tale of Love and Darkness – Amos Oz
April 03, 2015 08:45 - 25 minutes - 24.1 MBOne of the world’s great authors goes back in time and space – from the Jerusalem of the 1940s to the Eastern Europe of the 19th Century, from a boy's heart to a mother’s face to a father’s brain – and brings back everything, but not enough. Cuts close and hurts so good. Wizardly? Masterful. >>> Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking ...
Alias Kid
March 27, 2015 18:17 - 55 minutes - 59.3 MBThey're the latest Manchester sensations - swaggering rockers with more than a hint of Oasis about them. No wonder Alias Kid were snapped up by music maven Alan McGee, the svengali who gave Oasis to the world! As band manager and the boss of Creation Records, McGee has been associated with some of the biggest names in British independent rock, including Oasis, the Libertines, Primal Scream and The Jesus & Mary Chain. Now he joins Garry with his latest protégées who play live in our studio...
The Viral Mind of Susan Blackmore
March 25, 2015 14:31 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBMeet Susan Blackmore, the world’s foremost expert on memes. The intro to her seminal work The Meme Machine was written by none other than genius biologist and fundamentalist atheist blowhard Richard Dawkins. Her lectures on TED receives millions of views— even despite TED's dishwater-dull format when compared to Litopia After Dark (rowr!) “Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world,” said Marshal McLuhan. Never has this been more true. (Full quote: Man becomes, as it we...
Beki Adam – Top Gear Mutineer
March 22, 2015 12:34 - 55 minutes - 64.1 MBYou might think that landing a coveted job presenting BBC TV’s Top Gear would be the peak of most people’s careers. Not for tonight’s guest, Beki Adam. For her, presenting the most widely-watched factual television programme in the world was just the start of a long, and very strange journey... that may yet take her to a seat in the British Parliament. Predecessor of the infamous, bigoted and fisticuffy Jeremy Clarkson, Beki is the opposite of a petrolhead: she runs an organic farm. She ha...
Exiles – Michael J Arlen
March 12, 2015 13:11 - 25 minutes - 22.4 MBThe name Michael Arlen will mean nothing to most readers but Arlen was once the cream of the jazz age novelists, the envy of Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Maugham, the owner of speedboats and a villa on the Mediterranean. Then he fell completely into obscurity. By the time his son was born, the golden days were past tense, with the father coasting on his stardust. This is the story of that. Sage butter. >>> Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fict...