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The Year of Living Surreally

…or a slightly older student at a local art school, a few years from his own musical career but already possessing “the aura of a sage.” His name: Brian Eno….

Memphis Noir

…its details? Ace Atkins: When you live in north Mississippi, Memphis is the unofficial capital and where you spend a ton of time. I’ve been writing about Memphis since my…

Tender and Tragic

…— frightening accidents that could have been fatal. He tells also of the time when, unable to otherwise expel a bird that’s entered his tiny New York apartment, he shot…

The Good Fight

…killed a man. In almost any other life, it would have been the defining moment, overshadowing all else. In Magee’s life, the incident almost had an inevitability about it, and…

“Haunting My Own Name”

“Mississippi is all arrivals. Mississippi is all beginnings. But Mississippi is also something we return to, again and again, to find where we started in hopes of catching a glimpse…

Desolation Rowboat

…those who can do it can understand it.” Improvisation, then. A sort of conjuring. A master of the keys at work, a Thelonious Monk, let’s call him, of the written

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