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Watch Ben Folds and Nick Hornby's "Things You Think" Video

Yesterday, Folds unveiled the first video from his collaboration with the High Fidelity author...  read more

Fans, Bob Saget Interview Ben Folds

When an artist is about to release a new album or embark on a new tour, there’s generally some press coverage. It’s no different for piano man Ben Folds, whose Nick Hornby collaboration, Lonely Avenue, drops late this September. Well, maybe it’s a little different....  read more

Ben Folds Tweets Nick Hornby Collaboration Album Details

Hey, did you hear? British novelist Nick Hornby, of High Fidelity and About a Boy fame, has joined forces with ivory-tickling, chatrouletting Ben Folds to make an album together. We know, you’re all like, “Duh, Paste, we knew that already!” Well now, in addition to just talk about the album floating around, Ben Folds has tweeted some album details and artwork....  read more

Ben Folds Talks Nick Hornby Album, Desire for Jesse James Album

The story goes like this: Ben Folds and Nick Hornby were having dinner one night...  read more

Various Artists: Light: On the South Side

The gorgeous sights and sounds of ’70s Chicago blues Afro-topped women’s libbers, fedora-clad gangsters and bespectacled academics: The black men and women who inhabit photographer Michael Abramson’s hedonistic photos of ’70s Chicago blues clubs span the social and historical spectrum. In new book Light: On the South Side, we witness a time when the meeting point of Howlin’ Wolf and James Brown still catalyzed black American life—the last time, as Nick Hornby says in the introduction, that “the past and the future [co-existed] so peaceably.”...  read more

Listen to Ben Folds and Nick Hornby's "Levi Johnston's Blues"

As we learned a year ago, piano-pop maven Ben Folds and author Nick Hornby are collaborating on a soon-to-be-released but as-yet-untitled album. The duo’s wry self-awareness of music and literature seem like a natural fit, but it’s still hard to predict what fruit this pairing will bear....  read more

An Education

It’s been said many times that 50 percent of a movie director’s job is casting...  read more

Nick Hornby: Juliet, Naked

Duncan is the kind of guy who won’t man-up...  read more

Nick Hornby Tackles Babymaking in Animated Film

With three of his books translated to film, plus two more adaptations in the works, Nick Hornby is now getting the hang of writing directly for the screen. But his latest side project reaches beyond his usual fortes of music, sports and love, to explain matters a bit more biological....  read more

Ben Folds talks Nick Hornby collaboration album

"There'll be an infant-mortality rate to contend with," he says...  read more