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Noteworthy: October frights: perfume
By MIK DAVIS
Fri,10/07/22-3:00PM , 1,244 Reads
He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible power to command the love of mankind. There was only one thing that power could not do: it could not make him able to smell himself.
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Remembering Pharoah Sanders
By MIK DAVIS
Sun,10/02/22-3:00PM , 1,490 Reads
Why is Jazz "spiritual?" Because of Pharoah Sanders. The Little Rock, AR-born saxophonist/flutist possessed a true gift for making his horn sound human even in the middle of the maelstrom of Free Jazz. Somehow a childhood of Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Bobby "Blue" Bland, and Junior Parker prepared him for anything.
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Noteworthy: A nest of singing birds: 1929 as the turning point of Southern literature
By MIK DAVIS
Sat,10/01/22-3:00PM , 1,509 Reads
Part of my job in the world is the reading of manuscripts, chiefly by new authors. I go through hundreds every week. Boston produces better writing than the far West. Los Angeles leads the whole country in quantity; Kansas and Oklahoma are producing capital poets; they tremble on the verge of literature.
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NOTEWORTHY: Robert Penn Warren and The Fugitive poets
By MIK DAVIS
Sat,09/24/22-3:00PM , 1,391 Reads
American Literature as a recognized category actually has a fairly short history. While there are now libraries full of works that capture the post-Colonial and early experimental movement toward a body of work that encompasses and celebrates American culture, it typically coalesces around Ralph Waldo Emerson circa 1836.
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