Author: Brian Berger
Brian Berger writes about history and other things, some of which are from Brooklyn.
Richard Brautigan
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One of America’s greatest comic writers, RICHARD BRAUTIGAN (1935-84) was also, shockingly, one of its most successful. Raised in the northwest by a waitress mother, after a rough early adulthood (mental hospital, electroshock therapy) he […]
Read This PostElmore James
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How can something so goddamn loud be so mysterious? That’s only the most obvious question listeners to the explosive music of ELMORE JAMES (1918-63) will confront. His biography until age 33 tantalizes: raised in the […]
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Forget the breasts, the wigs, and, recently, the plastic surgery. Consider instead DOLLY PARTON (born 1946), the fourth of twelve children from a farming family in Locust Ridge, Tenn., as she arrives in Nashville, 1964. […]
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