THE MILLSAPS HOOKS PROJECT
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THE FALL 2009 CONTEST WINNER: BRANDI BUCKLER on "Holland, 1945" by Neutral Milk Hotel
ART HOOKS
Austin Baker on Botticelli's Mars & Venus Cloyd Garth, Jr. on Michelangelo's Pieta Nathan Harrell on a Frida Kahlo self-portrait Katie Odom on Storypeople by Brian Andreas Elise Smith on a Rembrandt self-portrait of 1628
FILM HOOKS AND LISTS
Ted Ammon et al. on brilliant close-up performances Cree Cantrell on the Rocky pose Mary Louise Lones on The Motorcycle Diaries Spring 2006 Philosophy of Film all-time top ten film lists
LITERATURE HOOKS AND LISTS
Jack Boettcher on Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Andy Carlson on Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Micah Shear on Tom Bombadil in Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien FACULTY PLEASURE READING PICKS -- the 1/19/07 Forum Steve Smith's "Great Reading" Lists
Jack Boettcher on Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Andy Carlson on Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Micah Shear on Tom Bombadil in Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
MUSIC HOOKS AND LISTS
Brandi Buckler on "Holland, 1945" by Neutral Milk Hotel John Conway on Paul Simon lyrics David Guyott on 21st Century Breakdown by Green Day Lainey Johnson on "Lush and Green" by Paul Westerberg Nedah Nemati on "Can't" by Alan Lastufka Sital Sanjanwala on "You and I Both" by Jason Mraz The Rock & Pop Hooks Hall of Fame TEMPLE OF THE SONG -- the 9/19/08 Forum Steve Smith's Listening Suggestions HOOKS: a site for closer looks at the greatest little things in rock HOOKS OF OTHER KINDS Jennifer Gandy on Kaxil Kiuic Stephen Passman, "On This Page I Live" Hollie Penuel on Age and a Coin
The Rock & Pop Hooks Hall of Fame
Steve Smith's Listening Suggestions HOOKS: a site for closer looks at the greatest little things in rock
HOOKS OF OTHER KINDS
Jennifer Gandy on Kaxil Kiuic Stephen Passman, "On This Page I Live" Hollie Penuel on Age and a Coin