Volume 38, Issue 3

While students filed into desk chairs and discussed The Catcher in the Rye for the past 50 years, J.D. Salinger remained cloistered in his Cornish, New Hampshire estate working on… well no one’s really sure. There are hopes and even expectations among his fans and followers that the reclusive author never put down his pen. Perhaps a sequel to Catcher or more tales about the beloved Glass family were being edited and refined for this moment.Read more...

Lil Wayne is a man who goes by quite a few monikers, but apparently being both the self-proclaimed best rapper alive and Birdman Jr. just wasn’t enough. Arguably the most prolific rapper of the past few years has set his sights on taking over the rock game. On the title track of Rebirth, Wayne has attempted to reinvent himself as a “dope boy with a guitar,” an inclination he hinted at in the video for 2008’s smash single “Lollipop” off the Grammy-winning The Carter III, his best selling album to date.Read more...