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April 22, 2008

Book examines weight against gravity, life

“Against Gravity” by Farnoosh Moshiri. Penguin Books, Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson St., New York, 10014. 308 pp., $14.00 paper.Against Gravity weaves together the lives of six characters struggling to cast the weight of the world from their shoulders. Hence the title, and the epigraph from Rilke, “Life is heavier than the weight of all things.” more >>


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April 15, 2008

Book follows the musical career of Townes Van Zandt

The best poet in Texas may have been the musician who left us the lyrics to “Snowing on Raton” and “Pancho and Lefty.” In “A Deeper Blue,” Robert Earl Hardy describes Townes Van Zandt’s life and music. more >>