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  • Advice to Writers: Read Reviews at Your Risk

    December 13, 2022

    But I've been lucky this week. . .  DL <<<David Lehman’s “Sinatra’s Century” is a much shorter but more intimate portrait [than James Kaplan's biography]. Many of the same anecdotes used by Kaplan can…

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  • Elvis and Frank

    December 12, 2022

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  • What does Sinatra stand for? (on his birthday)

    December 12, 2022

    On Sinatra's birthday: from a review in 2015https://www.thefranksinatra.com/books/sinatras-century-david-lehman-book <<<  Sinatra’s Century is a recently published book, written by David Lehman. The full title of the book is: “Sinatra’s Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man…

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  • Deems Taylor introduces Frank Sinatra on V-Disc “for the men overseas” (1944)

    December 12, 2022

    Sinatra at the Stork Club, 1944 "If You Are But a Dream""Sunday, Monday and Always"  as "Dick Haymes, Dick Todd and Como."       "Why should it get their goat, each time I bend…

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  • Ann Pedone: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    December 11, 2022

                                      _______________________________________________________ The Third Poem   1          A month after I quit grad school, I got a birth…

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  • “Shaking Martinis” [from John O’Hara’s “Butterfield 8”]

    December 10, 2022

    <<< "Tell Mrs. Liggett what you told me about shaking Martinis," said Nancy. "Oh. yes," said Farley. "You know, like everyone else, I suppose, I've been going for years on the theory that a…

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