Whispers

The National gets some play from the Post. Their most recent album, Boxer, is getting all the buzz, but it's worth perusing the archives for 2005's Alligator. Opener Secret Meeting is spectacular. Autumn de Wilde is Annie Leibovitz for today's young rock musicians. iTunes will now offer movies for rent or sale in Canada. Operation Filmmaker documents how an attempt at giving a hand up to an unproven talent can go awry. Electronic books may still be viable. Profitable even. The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction goes to Rose Tremain for The Road Home. And James Frey attempts a fictional comeback.