David Hajdu, author of Lush Life and Positively 4th Street, teaches at Syracuse University and is music critic for The New Republic. (June 2005)
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The Royal Blues
June 23, 2005
Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington
by Nadine Cohodas
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Hustling Elvis
October 9, 2003
The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley
by Alanna Nash
Elvis Presley
by Bobbie Ann Mason
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Comics for Grown-Ups
August 14, 2003
Safe Area Gorazde
by Joe Sacco, with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens
Palestine
by Joe Sacco, with an introduction by Edward Said
Ghost World
by Daniel Clowes
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He Took Manhattan
August 15, 2002
Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers
by Meryle Secrest
Lorenz Hart: A Poet on Broadway
by Frederick Nolan
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The Spirit of the Spirit
June 21, 2001
The Spirit Archives Will Eisner
Outer Space Spirit: 1952 by Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer, and Wally Wood
A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories
Will Eisner
Life on Another Planet Will Eisner
New York: The Big City
Will Eisner
Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood Will Eisner
The Building Will Eisner
Invisible People Will Eisner
Minor Miracles Will Eisner
Family Matter Will Eisner
Will Eisner Reader: Seven Graphic Stories by a Comics Master
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An Exchange on ‘Jazz’
March 29, 2001
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Not Quite All That Jazz
February 8, 2001
Jazz by Ken Burns
Jazz: A History of America’s Music by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz 1954–2000 by Whitney Balliett
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Fascinatin’ Rhythm
July 20, 2000
Harry Partch
by Bob Gilmore
Enclosure 3: Harry Partch
edited and with an essay by Philip Blackburn
Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos
by Harry Partch, edited and with an introduction by Thomas McGeary
Genesis of a Music
by Harry Partch