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The Band - Eric Clapton loved The Band so much that he wanted to quit Cream and join it.  How to make that happen?
William Steig - “Shrek” --- yes, William Steig wrote and illustrated the book that led to the movie that became the marketing.
Anna Akhmatova - "Poetry is respected only in this country,” said Russian poet Osip Mandelstam.
Bob Dylan - Two hundred and twenty reviews into this venture, and not one about Bob Dylan. What does that tell you? It might suggest that the proprietor of
Kenny White - Friends took me to see Kenny White.
Pete Townshend - Forget that they invented the rock opera and could drop from full-bore arena band to acoustic grace.
Stanley Kunitz - It says a great deal about Stanley Kunitz that he was 95 when he was named Poet Laureate for the second time.
The Dionne Warwick Collection - How can you tell if you're young? Well, when you think of Dionne Warwick, do you think of those infomercials for the Psychic Friends Network? Is the l
Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making, Michael Caine - Michael Caine was a Cockney with burning ambition, unproven talent and few connections.
C.P. Cavafy - Constantine Petrou Cavafy (1863-1933) may be one of the greatest poets of the last century, but he's mostly known for one poem.
Canal House Cooking Volume 4 - “A beautiful woman is an invitation to a happiness she alone can fulfill.” Proust said that.
"We're All We Have" - I suggested it was time for the 9.5-year-old to make her list for Santa. She wiggled two fingers on each hand --- air quotes – and said, “
'A Christmas Carol' & Beyond: Shorter books, please! - The writer I used to be would be appalled by the writer I have become. A butcher.   Back in the days before you could get credit at Harvard for t
'wichcraft: Craft a Sandwich into a Meal -- And a Meal into a Sandwich, Tom Collicchio - Tom Colicchio is on television so often that I can’t quite picture him actually having a day job.
10 Remixes, Les Negresses Vertes - Esther Perel, the therapist who wrote Mating in Captivity, has a radical explanation for marital bed death.
100 Journeys for the Spirit - Landscapes with spiritual power --- haven’t we been there before? Yes. We have. The book is Sacred Landscapes: The Threshold Between Worlds.
2005 Holiday Gift List -     2005 Holiday Gift List It's so warm out in New York that the birds have been fool
2010: Hey, hey, goodbye - With this edition, I kiss 2010 goodbye and, like the butler/chauffeur of “Sabrina,” head off to spend the holidays with my family in our m
2011: The Bad and the Beautiful -   “The first cure for illusion,” Philip Slater wrote, “is despair.”   This was the year in which certain things beca