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Advice to Writers: Read Reviews at Your Risk
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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What does Sinatra stand for? (on his birthday)
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)
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]
_______________________________________________________ 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”]
<<< "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…
