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The Literature of the Blues
Over the last 60 years, scores of artist biographies and memoirs of the blues have been published to document its history. These works shed light on the impact the music and its practitioners have had on our understanding of American history, African-American culture and its influence on jazz and other musical genres.
Collecting Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx should be an inspiration to any writer who has toiled for long years with little success. She was 53 before her first book of fiction was published, and in the two decades following that success she won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.
Comfort Books
In the “Editor’s Letter” in the March issue, we proposed another round of “guilty pleasures,” the books we read again and again for pure enjoyment. The responses this time concentrated on books that reflect more the tone of the era—comfort books. Perhaps we should not have been surprised.
Ten Years Ago
Jim Harrison
Books into Film
Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday, John Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row”