Paper Walls

Paper Walls is the third major-label album from American pop punk band Yellowcard, released on July 17, 2007, but their fourth full-length studio album with Ryan Key and sixth including those recorded before him. This is also the first Yellowcard album with Ryan Mendez, the last with Peter Mosely, and the last studio album to be released through Capitol Records. The album was recorded at Ocean Studios in Burbank, California and was mixed at South Beach Studios in Miami, Florida.

In an interview with Jason Tate of AbsolutePunk.net released on June 17 (one month before the release of the album), vocalist Ryan Key described the album as

Recording and production

On October 16, 2006, only six months after the release of their previous album, Lights and Sounds, the band announced over their official website that they were back in the studio recording a new album. Pre-production began in October 2006 and tracking began in January 2007. From January to March 2007, studio footage labeled "Yellowcard Sessions" regarding the band's progress on making the album was posted on the band's MySpace.

Let the Old Dreams Die

Let the Old Dreams Die is a short story collection by John Ajvide Lindqvist. The bulk of the stories were originally published in Sweden in 2005 under the name Paper Walls. Quercus published the first English-language release in 2011, with the addition of the title story Let the Old Dreams Die.

The title story is a sequel to Lindqvist's novel Let the Right One In. Also included is The Final Processing, a sequel to Lindqvist's Handling the Undead.

Contents

Reception

Terrence Rafferty of The New York Times wrote "It’s a good thing Lindqvist is such a lively, observant writer because, despite the relative paucity of evil, the themes of his fiction can be mighty grim: his characters spend an inordinate amount of time negotiating with the Reaper, in his various forms. Maybe it’s a Swedish thing. But his touch is a good deal lighter than that of his great, gloomy compatriot Ingmar Bergman. A Seventh Seal by Lindqvist would have plenty of jokes and perhaps even a sliver of hope. He tends to write about people who don’t take themselves, or life, too seriously — until they’re forced to, by love or fear or (most often) both."