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Book Review: Singer, Songwriter, and Guitarist Robyn Hitchcock — A Man Who Never Left the ’60s
June 25, 2024
This unconventional memoir suggests that music can do more than just change ideas or beliefs — it can transform minds, overhaul brains.
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September 21, 2017
“To me, ’67 was a year that was different from what came after it.”
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January 15, 2010
This enjoyable anthology of crime stories proffers a grimy ride through the murderous and creepy side of Beantown. Boston Noir, edited by Dennis Lehane. Akashic Books, $15.95 Reviewed by Kate Vander Wiede In the introduction of Boston Noir, editor, contributor. and best-selling novelist Dennis Lehane explains that while Aristotle “mandated that a tragic hero must…
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