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Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and ended with Bill Evans’s Waltz for Debbie.
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood (Vintage International)
During the past three decades American culture has become louder, faster, more disjointed. For immediacy of effect, writers can’t compete with popular music or action movies, cable network news
Tracy Kidder • Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
She loves feeling that every headway man tries to make
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The music producer Adrian Younge was hanging out on Twitter one day and tweeted, “Who is better: The Dramatics or The Delfonics?” As his followers erupted in a debate over the two soul groups, one follower mentioned that the lead singer of The Delfonics, William Hart, was a friend of his dad’s and that Hart just happened
Austin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)
Douglas R. Hofstadter, whose ten-year-old Gödel, Escher, Bach shows few signs of fatigue. Several years ago the Club, not even blinking at the title, offered his Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, which ponders such imponderables as the nature of human creativity and the limits of artificial intelligence.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
Mozart was an artistic and financial success, and it was not long before Mrs. Davenport was writing a new book, a novel.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
the next decade is remembered as the Jazz Age.
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
