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Fuse Music Interview: Cold Specks — The Queen of Doom Soul

October 27, 2014
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Neuroplasticity is a bit more fleshed-out than its predecessor, but the album retains ample amounts of the slow to mid-tempo spookiness that Al Spx calls “doom soul.”

Book Interview: The Boston Book Festival — Six Years On and Thriving

October 18, 2014
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“The Boston Book Festival is doing really well. It feels like an established part of Boston’s cultural scene.”

Book Interview: Jim Vrabel Explores Boston’s History from the Grassroots Perspective

September 28, 2014
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A People’s History of the New Boston takes the “grassroots” view and tries to give overdue credit to the role that community activists and neighborhood residents played in building the “New Boston.”

Book Interview: Marion Elizabeth Rodgers on the Expanded “Days” of H. L. Mencken

September 25, 2014
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In The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition, H. L. Mencken comes off as a marvelously mellowed master, his trademark savagery smoothed over, its energy focused on generating a pungently picturesque vision of a vanished America.

Music Interview: Beth Harrington on The Carters, The Cashes, and the Course of Country Music

September 23, 2014
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“The music itself is quite Gothic. It’s about murder, and death, and God, not all toe tapping stuff.”

Music Feature: “Don’t Look Back” – Talking With Barry Tashian of The Remains

September 22, 2014
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“And the pot was very good. I don’t know if you want to print that or not.”

Books Interview: Heather Cox Richardson on the History of the Republican Party — Going Full Circle

September 22, 2014
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In this book, Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson explores the (d)evolution of the Republican Party from its founding in 1854 through the presidency of George W. Bush.

Book Interview: David Albahari’s “Globetrotter” — The Postmodern Émigré Blues

September 18, 2014
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Serbian writer David Albahari’s fascination with uncertainty fuels a grim, sardonic tragi-comedy in which silence plays an elemental but enigmatic role.

Book Interview: Leonard S. Marcus on Robert McCloskey and the Art of the Picture Book

September 13, 2014
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The centennial of the author of Make Way For Ducklings is being celebrated with a series of lectures by scholar Leonard S. Marcus.

Theater Interview: Wordsmiths Strike Back — The Poets’ Theatre Redux

September 6, 2014
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We intend to stage work by all the living American poets we can lure into our sphere: starting right here in Cambridge.

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