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Non-Fiction Reviews
Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower
March 27, 2025For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill
March 25, 2025Dominique’s worst luck was to have been born in Houston, Texas, the principal city of Harris...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
March 25, 2025When confronted with Cotton in a police lineup, Thompson had nary a shred of doubt that...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization by Alex Perry
March 22, 2025Perry describes a world without a middle class, a world in which, according to 2006 statistics,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Amarcord: Marcella Remembers by Marcella Hazan
March 17, 2025If we are what we eat, then Marcella Hazan, the author of what are often recognized...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Hollywood Lives: George C. Scott and Tony Curtis
March 16, 2025At the airport, customs agents discovered a bag of marijuana and a handgun inside his baggage....
Biography
Book Review: Unbillable Hours: A True Story by Ian Graham
February 10, 2024It was an appeal on behalf of Mario Rocha, a Los Angeleno of Mexican descent, who...
Music
Book Review: Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz by Randall Sandke
February 7, 2024Sandke offers no critical commentary about this piece of advice that was given Armstrong after he...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen by Jimmy McDonough
January 30, 2024In the Nashville of the 1960s, songs were typically recorded in an hour or less and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Dow
January 29, 2024There are cases in which even though relatives of the victims have argued against death for...
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