The result is an intimate, melancholy, frank, and surprising paean to reading and books.
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Donna Seaman
June 18,
Literary Hub,
18 June 2025
The Renaissance’s old love language — the naughty puns, the sighs of longing and strategies of seduction, the paeans to the beauty of beloveds masked by fanciful Greek and Latin names — had grown obsolete long before Millay’s time.
Like many of the 27 tracks on her Grammy-winning album of the year, her Cowboy Carter and Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit Tour is a requiem to Black artists who have helped shape country music and a reclamation of Americana for those who have been shut out.
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Megan Thomas,
CNN Money,
27 June 2025
Column Plug Two Rollie Pemberton A requiem for Trugoy and a rebirth for De La Soul.
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Unwritten Recipes
Chantal Braganza
Anyone who’s lived long enough to learn to feed themselves likely has some kind of biographical dish.
After learning of the loss of the iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior and the deaths of all 29 crew members from Newsweek, Gord lifted passages from the article and put them to a dreamy dirge: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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Ryan Craig,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
Though it was written around the time of Malibu’s Woolsey fire, the 14-minute long dirge that encompasses flames in Malibu and a cougar that roams the hills took on a new and sinister meaning in the aftermath of the more recent fires.
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