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Book Review: “The Songs We Know Best” — The Youth of Poet John Ashbery

This book captures — beautifully — poet John Ashbery’s youth and dreams and struggles.

Joby Gee May 24, 2020 at 1:25 pm on Film Review: “The Ghost of Peter Sellers” — A Riveting Post-MortemHi Betsy. Great review! I was the editor of Ghost and I think that this is the best written one...
N Williams May 22, 2020 at 4:42 pm on Jazz CD Review: “The Jerry Granelli Trio Plays Vince Guaraldi and Mose Allison” — Paying Exciting HomageGreat tribute, got to work with both on bass back in the day. Thx,Nick
Clea Simon May 21, 2020 at 2:49 pm on Music Documentary Review: “Up From the Streets” — New Orleans’ History of Oppression and CreativityCan't wait till we can return. In the meantime, did you catch WWOZ's "Festing in Place" broadcasts? I swear that...
Mary Paula Hunter May 21, 2020 at 9:56 am on Film Reviews: More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — Stir-Crazy 4Thank you— plan on watching some of these and wouldn’t have have done so without this excellent curated list!
Tim Keenan May 21, 2020 at 6:36 am on Rethinking the Repertoire #14 – Sir Edward Elgar’s “Sea Pictures”Excellent article. Listening to Janet Baker singing it as I write. Haven't played this for ages but can't get the...