"You should always celebrate your successes because someone else will celebrate your failures."
Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys, quoted in an interview with Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian (UK).
For the complete interview see http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/sep/13/pet-shop-boys
Alan Contreras
About Me
- Alan Contreras
- Eugene, Oregon, United States
- I live in Oregon. I write on a variety of subjects.
Recommended Poets
- (the late) Leonard Cirino
- (the late) Reginald Shepherd
- Brian Turner (Here, Bullet)
- Cameron La Follette (Anamchara)
- Carl Phillips (especially earlier works)
- Frank Lospalluto
- J.D. McClatchy
- John Witte (The Hurtling)
- Mark Doty
- Michael Spring
- Pattiann Rogers
- Pimone Triplett
- W.S. Merwin (earlier works and The Vixen)
Recommended Lesser-known Music
- Adolphus Hailstork, Sonata da Chiesa
- Alan Hovhaness, Magnificat (St. Johns perf.)
- Colin Brumby, Clarinet Sonatina
- Colin Brumby, Jesu Son Most Sweet and Dear (song)
- Colin Brumby, Piano Concerto
- Colin Brumby, Sospiri
- Colin Brumby, Symphony No. 1
- Dan Bern, Toledo
- Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe, Barcelona (songs)
- Ivan Moody, Akathistos Hymn
- J. Ralph, Illusionary Movements of Geraldine & Nazu (songs)
- Jimmy Eat World, Hear You Me (On The Rocks perf.)
- Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah (Freshman Fifteen perf.)
- Shaun Davey, Granuaile (song cycle)
- Shaun Davey, Relief of Derry Symphony
- Shaun Davey, The Pilgrim (song cycle)
- Ture Rangstrom, Symphony No. 2
- William Hawley (songs)
Recommended Lesser-known Fiction
- Arthur Ransome, other works (1930s young adult)
- Arthur Ransome, We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea
- Arthur Upfield, the “Bony” mysteries
- Austin Tappan Wright, Islandia
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince (1915 young adult)
- W. G. Collingwood, Thorstein of the Mere (19th C. young adult)
- Zenna Henderson, Ingathering (complete stories of the People, sci-fi)
Recommended Prose, History and Criticism
- Andrew Sullivan, Love Undetectable
- Andrew Sullivan, the Conservative Soul
- Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness
- Carl Honoré, In Praise of Slowness
- Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
- Christopher Hitchens, other works
- Edwin Muir, The Estate of Poetry
- Hugh Feiss OSB, Essential Monastic Wisdom
- James D. Hornfischer, The Last Stand of the Tin-can Sailors
- John Jay Chapman, Collected Works
- John Jay Chapman, Unbought Spirit (sampler)
- Jose-Alain Fralon, A Good Man In Evil Times
- Michael McIrvin, Whither American Poetry?
- Paul Valéry, The Outlook for Intelligence
- Robert Grudin, On Dialogue
- Robert Grudin, The Grace of Great Things
- Robert Grudin, Time and the Art of Living
- Stephen Spender, The Struggle of the Modern
- Thomas Merton/Czeslaw Milosz, Striving Toward Being (collected letters)
- W. H. Auden, The Prolific and the Devourer
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