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Book Review: “Renato!” — Novelist Eugene Mirabelli, Creator of Inwardness

February 5, 2021
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What a pleasure it is to revel in this work, which expresses enduring values in such an original way.

Book Review: The Glory of “Full Dissidence”

February 5, 2021
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Full Dissidence is not just about the corruption of professional sports. It is a fierce polemic that will alter the way you look at America.

Book Review: Nashville Songwriter Aimee Mayo is “Talking to the Sky”

February 3, 2021
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Nashville songwriter Aimee Mayo’s memoir offers an eye-opening perspective on the problematic treatment of women in the country music industry.

Book Review: “The Making of the American Creative Class” — Unions, Their Rise and Fall

January 29, 2021
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This history of union activity among white-collar workers in New York City tells an illuminating story about creative labor’s effort to be treated with respect by the powerful.

Book Review: “What, and Give Up Showbiz?” — The Busy Life of Boston Impresario Fred Taylor

January 28, 2021
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Boston’s Fred Taylor was by turns (and often simultaneously) a recording engineer, promo man, artist manager, talent scout, press agent, newspaper columnist, concert promoter, club manager, nightclub owner, restaurant, and movie house owner.

Arts Publication Interview: The Coming of “Caesura” — Sustaining the Freedom of Art

January 26, 2021
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“The gallery system, publishing houses, and critical reviews — all that facilitates the production and criticism sides of art’s dialectic — need to be reconsidered.”

Book Review: “The Movement” — The Struggle for Civil Rights, Abbreviated

January 26, 2021
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The Movement works best as a stripped-down, high-speed introduction to the struggle for civil rights, nothing more.

Book Review: “Burning the Books” — The Never-ending War on the Preservation of Knowledge

January 25, 2021
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Burning the Books sometimes turns into  a disturbing chronicle of mankind’s elemental hostility to learning: barbarians often first targeted libraries and archives.

Book Feature: Remembering Norman Mailer

January 25, 2021
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Over six decades Norman Mailer managed, by turns, to engage and enrage and stir the zeitgeist’s pot.

Book Review: “Freak Out! My Life with the Mothers of Invention” — Intimate Observations

January 19, 2021
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Fans of Frank Zappa who want to know about Frank the man as well as Zappa the musical and political icon would be wise to seek out Freak Out!

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