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Was 1971 greatest year in the history of rock? Read this delightful book and be prepared to argue.
Despite the pain of inhabiting Alexander Herzog’s disintegrating world, I absolutely could not put My Marriage aside.
This savvy, witty, and casually erudite novella proves that when it comes portraying adolescence in fiction the less sentimentality the better.
In her fabulous, intensely involving book, author Katie Roiphe crawls into the deathbeds of five writers who wrote brilliantly and prolifically.
Readers inspired to take a listening journey from Gioia’s historical perspective will benefit greatly from his delineation of jazz’s various forms.
Ben Ratliff’s volume about how to listen to music is full of fairly radical but largely undefended assertions.
A writer has to write for the now or to write for the ages. Gleason almost always chose the now, but his best moments go deeper.
Author Appreciation: The Fiction of Kent Haruf — Surviving Ordinary Life with Grace
Kent Haruf’s novels remind us that even in the hardest lives, there is joy, often delicate and evanescent, but joy, nevertheless.
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