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Man of Steel

…to George Strait, Ray Charles to the Everly Brothers. He was also an innovator, improving the mechanisms of the instrument and designing his “Emmons Original” model. As Fishell, a pedal

Illuminating the Invisible Work

…I had been young there, and that was enough.”); her father’s career as a traveling salesman (“If you can sell one thing,” he says, “you can sell anything.”); the sexual

Nothing Contrived

…Wolfe, Flannery O’Connor, Truman Capote, and Erskine Caldwell. Gay was “a little put off” by Caldwell because the Georgia author wrote about white men mistreating African Americans and included scenes…

A Man and His Mandolin

…of these types of musicians: “I wish I could do that, and then not do it.” But Roland is different. He’s been around long enough to differentiate between musical bluster…

Return to Rocksalt

…resident heroin dealer and son of Shifty Kissick, the local no-nonsense matriarch who always keeps a pistol by her side. When Mick visits Shifty to offer his condolences, she asks…

The Chance to Do It Over

…journey, and, ultimately, gains maturity. In This Time Tomorrow, the central character, Alice Stern, is not a child but a geriatric Millennial. Approaching 40, Alice is placidly skating along the periphery…

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