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John Schad’s experimental biography, Paris Bride: A Modernist Life, mixes fact and fiction as it speculates on the life ... Read more
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Helena Attlee and Sophy Roberts have both written "biographies" of musical instruments. Sophy Roberts’s book, The Lost P... Read more
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