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BookReviewFortyRulesof.JPG ‘Rules’ tells story of Rumi’s life
Before he became a famous poet and Sufi mystic, a religious scholar named Jalal ad-Din Rumi struggled with a feeling of emptiness. Despite his thousands of admirers and disciples, Rumi felt someth...
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BRIEFS
‘Star Spangled Girls’ at the library
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untitled.JPG 'Every Day in Tuscany'
In winter-cold blue light, the bells of Cortona ring louder. The cold iron clapper hitting the frozen bell produces clear, shocked, hard gongs that reverberate in the heads of us frozen ones in th...
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Songwriters play central role in new music books
NEW YORK — The John Lennon-Paul McCartney songwriting team broke up 40 years ago but their influence lives on in music, pop culture and now in two prominent new books about music
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BookreviewThreeDaysBefo.JPG Ellison's unfinished second novel still essential
For writers, the trouble with writing a great — or, shoot, even a good or slightly better-than-average first novel — is something at once both nebulous and stark: your second novel.
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‘Reality Radio’ an 18-piece collection
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