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Rollo May • The Courage to Create
Django Reinhardt was once in a taxi with Les Paul, inventor of the solid-body electric guitar. Paul was a self-taught musician, and the only person in both the Rock and Roll and National Inventors halls of fame. Reinhardt tapped Paul on the shoulder and asked if he could read music. “I said no, I didn’t,” Paul recounted, “and he laughed till he was
... See more(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Since almost every word Wolfe wrote was autobiographical, nearly all his characters based closely on real people, there had always been a risk of prosecution.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Dizzy’s Diamonds
Kenny Mathieson • Giant Steps: Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz, 1945-65

Alana Newhouse • Everything Is Broken
Densely packed populations, many individuals coming and going via land and waterways, an overheated mixture of people recently arrived from different locales, informal settings where they intermingle in close contact, a culture and environment that emphasize communal activities and get-togethers—
