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• COMFORTS OF THE ABYSS: THE ART OF PERSONA WRITING By Philip Schultz

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  Philip Schultz won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry with a book called Failure. Comforts of the Abyss presents Schultz’s method...

• GETTING LOST By Annie Ernaux

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  I decided to read a book by Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize for 2022. Getting Lost, a diary from 1988 to 1990, shows...

• GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3

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  Mild spoiler: Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 3 appears to be the final chapter of this configuration of the Guardians in the Marcel...

• FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #740: THREE ACES: THE GILDED HIDEAWAY By Peter Twist, IN AT THE KILL By Emmett McDowell, and HEAT LIGHTNING By Wilene Shaw

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  I fell in love with ACE Doubles at an early age in the Sixties. As I walked to school when I was 12 years old, I passed a local drug...

• RETRO 80s, Volume 1

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  This 1980s compilation includes some artists and groups you don’t hear much of anymore. When’s the last time you heard China...

• WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #123: ARCADIAN DAYS: GODS, WOMEN, AND MEN FROM GREEK MYTHS By John Spurling

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  As a kid, I loved Greek Myths. And I read Homer when I was around 10 years old (and have reread Homer over the decades). So John...

• SIX: THE MUSICAL

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  Diane and I travelled into Buffalo to Shea’s Performing Arts Center to watch Six: The Musical. We had seen Six on Broadway a...

• THE 100 BEST NOVELS IN TRANSLATION Selected by Boyd Tonkin

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  I’m a sucker for books like Boyd Tonkin’s fascinating The 100 Best Novels in Translation . I’ve read a fair number of...

• 2023 NFL DRAFT

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  For the first time in 40 years, the Buffalo Bills drafted a Tight End in the First Round of the NFL Draft. Dalton Kincaid has...

• INFINITY GATE By M. R. Carey

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  COVER DESIGN BY NICO TAYLOR M. R. Carey’s Infinity Gate begins with an Artificial Intelligence describing how it came into...

• FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #739: RAYGUNS & ROCKETSHIPS: VINTAGE SCIENCE FICTION BOOK COVER ART Edited and Designed By Ryan Hughes

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  JACKET ART BY RON TURNER Hundreds of vintage Science Fiction paperback and SF magazine covers! Plenty of eye-popping covers by Ed...

• …FEATURING NORAH JONES

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  Featuring Norah Jones  is a compilation album by American singer  Norah Jones  that was released on November 16, 2010, by  Blue Note...

• WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #122: DOLPHIN JUNCTION: STORIES By Mick Herron

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  I’m a big fan of Mick Herron’s Slough House series about failed spies. Jackson Lamb, the canny head of Slough House, shows...

• DISASTER! THE MUSICAL

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  Disaster!  is a jukebox musical comedy created by  Seth Rudetsky , and written by Seth Rudetsky and ...

• DICKENS AND PRINCE: A PARTICULAR KIND OF GENIUS By Nick Hornby

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  “There were four albums in the first three or four years of Prince’s twenties. He got a lot of good reviews for the third...

• “THE DEATH OF THE ENGLISH MAJOR” By Nathan Heller

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  “Once, in college, you might have studied Mansfield Park by looking closely at its form, references, style, and special marks of...

• MRS. DAVIS [Peacock]

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  If you’re in the mood for something completely different, you might want to catch an episode of Mrs. Davis on Peacock. Imagine...

• FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #738: The Temptress / Lament for a Lousy Lover / The Stripper By Carter Brown

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  Stark House’s latest omnibus edition of Carter Brown’s Al Wheeler mysteries collects #19, #20 and #21: The Temptress...

• JAMES TAYLOR (LIVE) [2-CD Set]

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  I liked James Taylor’s music early on. This 2-CD live recording from 1993 includes most of Taylor’s hits from the Sixties,...

• WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #121: THE HUNTER FROM THE WOODS By Robert McCammon

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  DUST JACKER ILLUSTRATION BY VINCENT CHONG Michael Gallatin, a werewolf, first showed up in The Wolf’s Hour ,  a...

• The Super Mario Bros. Movie [3D]

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  The Box Office for The Super Mario Bros. Movie , after a mere two weeks, is $700 million dollars. That just demonstrates the power of...

• THE RED SCHOLAR’S WAKE By Aliette de Bodard

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  COVER ART BY RAVVEN I’ve read a couple of Aliette de Bodard’s SF novels set in her Xuya Universe. My favorite was The...

• Schmigadoon! SEASON 2 [Apple TV+]

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  The musical series’ sophomore season picks up with Josh (Keegan-Michael Key) and Melissa (Cecily Strong) after they found love in...

• Friday’s Forgotten Books #737: HIGH CONCEPTS: SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY STORIES By Bill Pronzini

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  Most readers would identify Bill Pronzini as a mystery writer best known for his “Namless Detective” series. But, as...

• THE BYRDS GREATEST HITS and BYRDS TURN, TURN, TURN: THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION (3-CD Set)

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  How much you like The Byrds might determine which of these Greatest Hit collections you’d prefer. Surprisingly, The Byrds...