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Sample Saturday – an academic, a movie star, and how to write a hit song

Posted by Kate W in Fiction, Non-fiction, Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 1920s, eighties, Emma Straub, John Seabrook, Kingsley Amis, music, Sample Saturday June 25, 2016

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Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye.

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