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The Challenges and Pleasures of Helping Quincy Jones Tell His Life Story

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“Once you’re in the circus, it’s hard to get out.” Martha Wainwright on Growing Up Among Artists

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Fights, Silences, and Music During a Tumultuous Year in Manhattan

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The Biblical Story of Leonard Cohen’s October 1973 Resurrection in the Sinai Desert

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Welcome to New York (University), Taylor Swift.

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“We Straddle the Now and the Ether.” On Black Gay Time

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