1. What’s better than enjoying the lazy days of summer with a book you just can’t stop reading? Sam Taylor’s excellent and engrossing The Amnesiac, an unforgettable novel about amnesia, was the most popular VSL book of August. If you haven’t read it yet, it might be the perfect novel to take you into fall. To read the original e-mail, click here.
2. VSL readers rediscovered their love for Frank Sinatra this month, thanks to the underappreciated 1958 film Some Came Running, directed by Vincente Minnelli and co-starring Shirley MacLaine and Dean Martin. In it, the Chairman of the Board reminds us that there’s satisfaction in finding the bad beneath the good old days. To read the original e-mail, click here.
3. The most popular VSL Classic Web pick this month? The downloadable album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, which re-teams the inimitable Brian Eno with Talking Heads founder David Byrne. The album’s available exclusively on their website, where you can stream the songs free. To read the original e-mail, click here.
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