Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
The House that George Built by Wilfrid Sheed includes delightfully intimate portraits of the icons of Tin Pan Alley. Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Richard Rogers stand out among those creative geniuses who gave us the songs that have become known as American Popular Music.
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 04/27/2009
... Critical Revival . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I think I have mentioned here before that my family moved to the Torresdale section of Philadelphia a few years after Wilfrid Sheed moved away. I wonder if his memories of that lost world are as fond as mine. By the way, I just ordered a copy of Essays in Disguise .
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
... Wilfrid Sheed on the Ideal Book Reviewe r .
CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
“The ideal reviewer writes no books at all, lives outside New York but doesn’t resent New York, has no credentials--because every credential is a trap. He simply-- well, how to put it'--has an interest in books.”
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
... A Real Find . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Nice that people are beginning to notice Wilfrid Sheed again.
Cleveland (Free subscription) | 09/28/2007
“Hey, kid, that new song of yours is a pip.” -- George Gershwin to Harold Arlen From New York’s Lower...
Blogcritics.org (Free subscription) | 09/28/2007
A history of American songwriters including Berlin, Gershwin, Hoagy Carmichael, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Jerome Kern, Harry Warren, Jimmy Van Heusen, and Johnny Mercer. “Hey, kid, that new song of yours is a pip.”--George Gershwin to Harold ArlenFrom New York’s Lower East Side to West Coast soundstage, the development of American song from 1900 to 1950 from songwriters who...
Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 09/05/2007
Two new articles explore the death of middlebrow culture in America. First up, Mark Steyn reviews Wilfrid Sheed's The House That George Built, which Steyn describes as "A music book that's not muzak":"You can't receive all your inspiration from listening...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/20/2007
Wilfrid Sheed's book is a big rich stew of an homage that makes you want to listen to Gershwin and Berlin and Porter and Arlen all over again.
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