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Michael Glover Smith

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The Mayor of MacDougal Street by Dave Van Ronk
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In addition to being a great guitarist, singer and interpreter of blues/jazz/folk songs, this memoir shows that Dave was also a great raconteur. If I had a time machine and could visit any time and place in the past, it would probably be Greenwich Vi ...more
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Escaping the Delta by Elijah Wald
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The thing is: Elijah Wald simply knows more about blues music than any other non-fiction author. Essential reading if you care at all about the genre.
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Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
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Second only to Moby Dick, this is the greatest American novel I've ever read. ...more
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The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
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A justly famous mystery novel that's also one of the cleverest books I've ever read. While a lot of novelists have taken writers and writing as their subjects, Tey's is the only novel I know of that's about the act of _reading_: The ingenious premise ...more
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Bob Dylan as Filmmaker by Michael Glover Smith
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I wrote this book between 2022 - 2025, during which time I watched and re-watched all of Dylan’s movies countless times, re-read all of the major scholarship on them and spent a week doing research on them at the Bob Dylan Archive in Tulsa. Here’s th ...more
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The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
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Bob Dylan as Filmmaker by Michael Glover Smith
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I wrote this book between 2022 - 2025, during which time I watched and re-watched all of Dylan’s movies countless times, re-read all of the major scholarship on them and spent a week doing research on them at the Bob Dylan Archive in Tulsa. Here’s th ...more
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