George Yatchisin
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Review | ‘Girl to Country: A Memoir’ by Amy Rigby (opens the original)
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Singer-songwriter Amy Rigby sets up the arc of her moving, charming, outsider-insider’s memoir Girl to Country poignantly in the prologue, when she considers what she might say to explain herself to Hazel Smith, who she calls “the Grande Dame of Music City,” while cheekily describing her “like … one of the Gabor sisters, if they’d been from Kentucky instead of Budapest.” She writes, “I just want to earn a living!” I wanted to shout. “But I also want to be AN ARTIST — to create work that no one e
Indy Origins: The 30-Year Hobby Job That Has My Heart (opens the original)
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I came to town with an alternative paper history, having cut my marginally paid journalistic teeth at the Baltimore City Paper while still in college. As an aside, holding the mildly impressive title City Lights Editor there meant I bugged bars for their live band schedules, which in those ancient days involved phone and mail. How a paper came out every week was sort of a miracle. It all led to a lifetime with a hobby job: writing for the local. Got to do it in State College, PA, where the paper
Book Review | ‘Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures: A Biography of Denis Johnson’ by Ted Geltner (opens the original)
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Is it possible to feel sad considering the life of someone who authored nine novels (one a winner of the National Book Award), a novella, two books of short stories, three collections of poetry, two collections of plays, and one book of reportage? That’s a damn good run for anyone, let alone someone gone at the relatively young age of 67. Still, it’s hard not to look at the life of Denis Johnson and lament. Clearly his biographer Ted Geltner recognizes that — just check out the book’s title. Gel
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