July 2010
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Comic book writer Harvey Pekar, best known for the...
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ASCAP — the American Society of Composers,...
June 2010
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Saxophonist and teacher Fred Anderson has died....
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Eighteen Americans will receive lifetime honors...
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The National Endowment for the Arts will bestow...
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Jose Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize in...
April 2010
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“Fiddling With An American Alternative To...
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Richie Stearns and I play “Sally Ann”...
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March 2010
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“Poet Lucille Clifton: Everything Is...
December 2009
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“Bess Lomax Hawes, Musical Folklorist,...
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Show And Tell →
Columbia Journalism Review (December 2nd, 2009) Many Americans will remember the Danish cartoon controversy of 2006, which prompted violent riots, consumer boycotts, and death threats. Few will remember the cartoons themselves, and with good reason. In the United States, only a handful of magazines and newspapers reprinted the notorious drawings.
November 2009
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“Chef Chang’s Momofuku: A Romance With...
October 2009
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“Schools Go For Gold At Solar...
August 2009
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“Vineyard Resorts To Trading On...
April 2009
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"The Protest Singer" By Alec Wilkinson →
Los Angeles Times (May 10th, 2009) In “The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger,” Alec Wilkinson outlines Seeger’s life in spare prose. The book, which began as a profile in the New Yorker, is not a biography. It is, in Wilkinson’s words, “a factual novella,” which centers on a series of recent interviews conducted at Seeger’s home in...
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The winners of the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes for...
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The winners of the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes for...
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The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes for letters, drama, and...
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Columbia University announced the winners of the...
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“Online News Organizations Compete For...
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The winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes...
January 2009
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“Saving Folk History, One Recording At A...
August 2008
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Illinois Senator Barack Obama delivered what could...
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About 80,000 people are expected at INVESCO Field...
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Barack Obama delivers his presidential nomination...
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The Democratic National Convention continues...
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Organizers of the Democratic National Convention...
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ZZ Packer's Edition Of Southern Stories Straddles... →
Independent Weekly (August 20th, 2008) In her introduction to ”New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2008,” ZZ Packer, co-editor of the collection, calls the American South “a land of contrasts.” “There’s the sweet tea, and the bourbon, and the mint juleps,” she writes. “But there’s also the low-brow Rally’s and Checkers and...
May 2008
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“First-Time Novelists Make A Splash On The...
January 2008
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“Rights Battle Brews over Un-Edited Carver...
July 2007
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The Original Dead Sea Squirrels — Ben Gould, David...
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The Original Dead Sea Squirrels — Ben Gould, David...
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The Original Dead Sea Squirrels — Ben Gould,...
February 2007
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Yearning To Study War No More →
The New York Times (February 11th, 2007) It is on Thursday evenings that Henrietta Yurchenco, a 90-year-old former City College professor and radio producer, collects a few of her students to sing the same protest songs she sang and taught 40 years ago. The war on their minds is a new one, but many of the songs they sing, like “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” and “Study War No...
June 2006
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May 2006
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March 2006
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Long John and The Tights — Randi Beckmann, John...
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Long John and The Tights — Randi Beckmann, John...
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Long John and The Tights — Randi Beckmann, John...
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Long John and The Tights — Randi Beckmann, John...
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Long John and The Tights — Randi Beckmann, John...
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Long John and The Tights — Randi Beckmann,...
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Long John and The Tights — Randi Beckmann, John...