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Sympathy for the devil: Joel Selvin’s retelling of a notorious moment in rock and roll history

Steven Beattie December 28, 2017 International Literature, Music, Non-fiction No Comments

Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day Joel Selvin Dey St. On November 19, 2017, Charles Manson died. The infamous cult leader’s demise closed the circle on what is often considered the

Short takes: “Christmas” by Vladimir Nabokov; Dimitri Nabokov, trans., in collaboration with the author

Steven Beattie December 25, 2017December 26, 2017 International Literature, Short Fiction No Comments

From The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Nabokov is so consistently lauded as a master prose stylist that it’s tempting to overlook a tendency – especially in his early work – toward sentimentality. “Christmas,” originally published (as “Rozhdestvo”) in 1925,

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Sympathy for the devil: Joel Selvin’s retelling of a notorious moment in rock and roll history

Short takes: “Christmas” by Vladimir Nabokov; Dimitri Nabokov, trans., in collaboration with the author

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