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My Broken Pieces by Rosie Rivera
epub |eng | 2015-12-21 | Author:Rosie Rivera

I lift up my hands, Even when I don’t have strength I lift my hands Even with a sea of problems When I lift my hands . . . I ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians December 2,2016 )
Absolutely on Music: Conversations by Haruki Murakami & Seiji Ozawa
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-11-15 | Author:Haruki Murakami & Seiji Ozawa [Murakami, Haruki]

I Never Even Knew Music Like That Existed MURAKAMI: Had you been listening to Mahler before Bernstein got you started? OZAWA: No, not at all. When I was a student ...
( Category: Classical December 2,2016 )
A Pure Solar World by Paul Youngquist
epub |eng | 2016-11-29 | Author:Paul Youngquist [Youngquist, Paul]

16 SPACE MUSIC Interstellar Low Ways contains a message from Sun Ra to his listeners printed in caps on the back cover: “THE IMPOSSIBLE IS THE WATCHWORD OF THE GREATER ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 30,2016 )
Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham
epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:Lauren Graham

Decades from now, historians will still be debating whether it was the freshman fifteen or the razor-sharp sideburns that kept me completely date-free that year! During college I waitressed, ushered ...
( Category: Television Performers November 30,2016 )
The Southern Education of a Jersey Girl by Jaime Primak Sullivan
epub |eng | | Author:Jaime Primak Sullivan

“THESE ARE NOT MY PEOPLE” Michael and I decided that early August would be good for the move because that would give me enough time to pack up my business ...
( Category: Memoirs November 29,2016 )
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think by Shirley Hazzard
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Shirley Hazzard

WILLIAM MAXWELL In his eighties, William Maxwell told me, “I love being old.” By then, Bill Maxwell had recurrent and sometimes serious bodily infirmities. His mind and spirit were perhaps ...
( Category: Essays November 29,2016 )
The Prince of los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Blanco

WHEN I WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING, CACO AND my primas were already gone. Hurt, I realized they must have snuck out of the room early while I was still ...
( Category: Authors November 28,2016 )
Romain Gary: A Tall Story by David Bellos
epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:David Bellos [Bellos, David]

18 Masquerade Gary in London, 1954–1955 LESLEY BLANCH GAVE Up her career as a journalist when she married Romain Gary and shortly after became a diplomatic wife. Ten years later, ...
( Category: Authors November 27,2016 )
Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books by Christine Woodside
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Christine Woodside [Woodside, Christine]

8 LIBERTARIANS IN CONNECTICUT “I owe Rose, for helping me, at first, in selling my books and for the publicity she gave them.” —Laura, in a letter to literary agent ...
( Category: Libertarianism November 27,2016 )
T Bone Burnett by Lloyd Sachs
epub |eng | 2016-11-25 | Author:Lloyd Sachs [Sachs, Lloyd]

CHAPTER 18 Soundtrack Auteur As a film fan who came of age in what is now widely regarded as the golden era for American cinema, Burnett was exposed to pop ...
( Category: Music November 26,2016 )
Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L. Friedman
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas L. Friedman

The Holocene of Geopolitics It is easy to forget today just how much the global order that settled on our planet after World War II and lasted through the post–Cold ...
( Category: Democracy November 25,2016 )
Lennon on Lennon by Jeff Burger
epub |eng | 2016-11-24 | Author:Jeff Burger

LENNON ON . . . Being with Yoko Ono “If you love somebody, you can’t be with ’em enough. . . . We don’t want to be apart. . . ...
( Category: Rock November 25,2016 )
Forever Words by Johnny Cash
epub |eng | 2016-10-18 | Author:Johnny Cash

DON’T TAKE YOUR GUN TO TOWN 1980s A young man of propriety Found life to be a bore He had studied politics and law Psychology and more He felt cold ...
( Category: United States November 24,2016 )
They're Playing Our Song by Carole Bayer Sager
epub |eng | | Author:Carole Bayer Sager

BURT FLEW INTO NEW YORK without me on Saturday night. My fortieth birthday was the next day, and went by unnoticed by both of us. Whatever happened during this time ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers November 24,2016 )
Hank by Mark Ribowsky
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Ribowsky

18 “THE GUN SHOT FOUR TIMES” In mid-August 1951, Hank Williams was on the marquee of a medicine show like no other. It was a lavish, star-studded, ten-week affair sponsored ...
( Category: Country & Folk November 24,2016 )

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