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“For a writer the important thing is to write. The second important thing is the resonance of a reaction, a response. Without an audience, you’re basically locked in your cavern.”
Poe Ballantine is often compared to Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac. I’d say he’s closer to the former than the latter, but he’s more polished than either and funnier than both put together.
Rock journalist Jim Sullivan’s writing style has always been conversational rather than confrontational.
Alan Paul’s meticulous, in-depth research lays out many of the pieces needed to help the reader think more deeply about this era.
It is the volume’s autobiographical component, the accounts of Pasolini’s wide wanderings in art and aesthetic revelations, with their dramatic, cinematic flashbacks, that give this collection much of its literary value.
What makes “Ode to Hip-Hop” such a worthy addition to the Rap Book Library is that it makes room for the contributions and trailblazing importance of artists who have been overlooked. Specifically, artists who aren’t straight men.
Anthony Burgess considered Ford Madox Ford to be the greatest of 20th century English novelists.
Host Elizabeth Howard talks to Justice Malala about his book “The Plot to Save South Africa,” an essential read for understanding modern South Africa.
Stephanie Bishop does a great job withholding information and she is also good at tying together the narrative’s many loose ends.
Book Review: “Free Them All” — The Case for Abolishing Prisons
“Free Them All”‘s analysis of the broken prison system and the obstacles facing those determined to find solutions combines scholarly discipline with a powerful, emotional appeal for justice.
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