Black musicians who tried to take their music to the masses paid a far steeper price than exclusion from restrooms.
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Book Review: Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
It's not only a voyage into the heart of a city, but also an anatomy of the soul of a people
Read More »Book Review: Skip by David Newsom
Newsom has created a beautiful homage to three remarkable people and an equally beautiful landscape.
Read More »Interview with Scott Tinley, Author of Things To Be Survived (Part Two)
"To think about resistance is to think about acceptance. Not for sale or selling out."
Read More »Interview With Jason Leopold, Author of News Junkie
"I am the anti-Jayson Blair. I went out of my way to report the truth" -- Jason Leopold
Read More »Book Review: Here, There And Everywhere: My Life Recording The Music Of The Beatles By Geoff Emerick
For Beatles fans looking for a unique, firsthand perspective into the music that changed history, your search stops here.
Read More »Book Review: Songs from the Black Chair – A Memoir of Mental Interiors by Charles Barber
This well-written memoir provides an excellent firsthand account of mental illness and its effects and consequences.
Read More »Book Review: Adjusting Sights by Haim Sabato
...we need to adjust our sights away from fighting and lift them up to a more worthy goal.
Read More »Interview with A.J. Jacobs, Author of The Know-It-All (Part Two)
"Oysters can change sex according to the temperature of the water. I always knew there was something emasculating about warm baths."
Read More »Interview with A.J. Jacobs, Author of The Know-It-All (Part One)
"When I was a kid, I was under the bizarre delusion that I was the smartest boy in the world." - A.J. Jacobs
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