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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.
John Vassos, Industrial Design for Modern Life is not only an essential book for designers, but for those who love the history of design.
For Cynthia Ozick, critics connect the dots; they inform us about what kind of culture we’re living in.
Hilmes’ fascination with Liszt’s public notoriety stands front-and-center in this biographical effort.
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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