New Nick & Ben Folds music video

Check out this new video Nick and Ben Folds did with Pomplamoose in advance of the September 28th release of the Ben/Nick album Lonely Avenue for the track “Things You Think”

Add comment September 2nd, 2010

Lonely Avenue pre-ordering

Lonely Avenue, the forthcoming album from Nick Hornby and Ben Folds, is now available for pre-order with an exclusive, limited-edition Folds/Hornby-penned manuscript score from the song “Picture Window,” a number of which will be signed by Ben and Nick.

Read more here…

Add comment August 16th, 2010

The live Lonely Avenue interview series

Learn more about the live Lonely Avenue interview series–Ben Folds and Nick Hornby discussing their upcoming album collaboration…Read more here!

Add comment August 12th, 2010

Nick Hornby and Ben Folds on Jonathan Ross

Nick and Ben perform on the Jonathan Ross Radio 2 show! Listen here online.

Add comment July 15th, 2010

Listen to the Ben Folds & Nick Hornby news feature on BBC Radio 4–Today!

Nick Hornby has collaborated with singer songwriter Ben Folds to write lyrics for the album Lonely Avenue. The songs are a series of short stories on subjects ranging from awkward relationships to the isolating process of writing itself. The duo speak to Today reporter Nicola Stanbridge. Listen to it here!

Add comment July 15th, 2010

Check out Nick Hornby on the Penguin Audio Book Break!

Watch it here!

Add comment September 30th, 2009

Nick Hornby’s tour line-up for Juliet, Naked

Nick Hornby’s tour line-up for the publication of Juliet, Naked this fall has been announced!

September 29th in New York  
Barnes & Noble – Union Square, 7:00 PM

September 30th in Boston 
Brookline Booksmith, 6:00 PM
Location: Coolidge Theater

October 1st in Washington, DC
Politics & Prose, 7:00 PM

October 6th in Los Angeles
Book Soup, 7:30 PM
Location: Skirball Cultural Center

October 7th in El Cerrito, CA 
Barnes & Noble – El Cerrito, 7:00 PM

October 8th in San Francisco 
City Arts & Lectures, 8:00 PM
Location: Herbst Theater

October 9th in Seattle  
Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:00 PM
Location: Seattle Public Library

And just added!:

October 4th in New York
The New York Times Live presents TimesTalks
The Great Literary Conversation
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Some terrific early reviews for Nick Hornby’s Juliet, Naked:

“Nick Hornby’s warmhearted Juliet, Naked returns him to the subject that animated his 1995 classic, High Fidelity: rock music and the obsessiveness of its more enthusiastic fans.” –Vogue

“Music geeks everywhere can finally quit jonesin’: Nick Hornby is back with Juliet, Naked. It’s the winning story of a musical genius in decline, an obsessive fan, and a woman who ends up loving—and sleeping with—them both.” –GQ

Add comment September 3rd, 2009

New Nick Hornby Video

Watch and listen to Nick Hornby discuss Juliet, Naked and what he likes about fans…

Check out the video here (on Facebook).

Add comment September 3rd, 2009

Trailer for An Education

Check out the movie trailer for An Education here!

Add comment September 3rd, 2009

Juliet, Naked

In a dreary seaside town in England, Annie loves Duncan—or thinks she does, because she always has. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn’t anymore. So Annie stops loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life.

She sparks an e-mail correspondence with Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanesque singer-songwriter who stopped making music twenty-two years ago, and who is also Duncan’s greatest 
obsession. A surprising connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they’ve got. Tucker’s been languishing (and he’s unnervingly aware of it), living in rural Pennsylvania with what he sees as his one hope for redemption amid a life of emotional, familial, and artistic ruin—his young son, Jackson. But then there’s also the material he’s about to release to the world, an acoustic, stripped-down version of his greatest album, Juliet, titled Juliet, Naked. And he’s just been summoned across the Atlantic with Jackson to face his multitude of ex-wives and children (both just discovered and formerly neglected), in the same country where his intriguing new Internet friend resides.

What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And miles away, a 
restless, childless woman looks for a change? Juliet, Naked is a powerfully engrossing, humblingly humorous novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to one’s promise.