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Day: December 21, 2018

2018 – the year in books

Next in these reviews of the year is the year in books. I read a lot in 2018, and it was a vintage year: for books published in 2018, for those I finally caught up on, and (best of all) all those unexpected surprises from times past. I’ve put the highlights into nine categories, withRead More

Luke McKernan December 21, 2018December 10, 2019Comments (4)

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T-Bone Burnett, J.S. Ondara, Mary Halvorson, Dave Douglas, Bob Dylan, Oliver Mtukudzi, and rediscovering Linda Lewis and Fela Kuti – a year of music https://lukemckernan.com/2019/12/13/2019-the-year-in-music/

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T-Bone Burnett, J.S. Ondara, Mary Halvorson, Dave Douglas, Bob Dylan (of course) and rediscovering Linda Lewis and Fela Kuti – a year of music https://lukemckernan.com/2019/12/13/2019-the-year-in-music/

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