When Stephen King was awarded a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the U.S. National Book Foundation in 2003, Harold Bloom, a Yale University professor, wrote in an editorial in The Boston Globe titled, “Dumbing down America’s readers,” that it was “another low in the shocking process of dumbing down our cultural life.” [...]
Now Hearing- Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue
- Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss & Emmylou Harris – Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby
- Sufjan Stevens – Prairie Fire That Wanders Abou
- Talking Heads – Crosseyed and Painless
- Emmylou Harris – Red Dirt Girl
- Bob Marley – Rastaman Chant
- Beck – Hell Yes
- Beastie Boys – In 3's
- The Flaming Lips – Mr. Ambulance Driver
- The Beatles – For You Blue
