This column originally appeared January 15, 2010, in issue 1802. Book: John Geiger, The Third Man Factor: The Secret to Survival in Extreme Environments (Penguin Canada 2009). Someone is Out There ?Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead… Read more »
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Meklit Hadero is an Ethiopian-born, Yale-educated, San Francisco-based singer-songwriter whose style merges jazz with folk and world music to create deeply sympathetic portraits of life’s magical (and often unnoticed) details. Her first full-length CD, On a Day Like This… , has just been released by Porto Franco Records. Meklit recently took the time to chat… Read more »
Book: Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room (Europa Editions 2010). The Self as a Ubiquitous Geography ? . . . movement has always been a substitute for thought and he’d like to stop thinking now.? Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room Our nameless white South African protagonist is making his way from Malawi to Tanzania… Read more »
Meklit Hadero is an Ethiopian-born, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter whose style merges jazz with folk and world music to create deeply sympathetic musical portraits of life’s priceless simple moments. Her first full-length CD, On a Day Like This ? , was just released by Porto Franco Records. Meklit recently took the time to chat with Wanda… Read more »
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Th.e n.d: Metaphors Mixgalaxy Records 2010 The Space in Which Trial Becomes Attainment ?We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.? T.S. Eliot Th.e n.d (the name is inspired partly by the Doors’s unforgettable hymn… Read more »
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“The bold strings rattled like splatters of sudden rain, The fine strings hummed like lovers? whispers. Chattering and pattering, pattering and chattering, As pearls, large and small, on a jade plate fall.” Bai Juyi, ?Pipa Xing? (?Pipa Play?) Album: Gao Hong, Quiet Forest, Flowing Stream (Innova Records 2010) The Sound of Fearless Serendipity Hong both… Read more »
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