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Saturday, December 6, 2025

Steve Cropper, RIP

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Got to have a hundred ... 
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Tall tales and fairy tales

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Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov I recently heard the awesome violinist Alexi Kenney* lead the San Francisco Symphony in Vivaldi's Four Season...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Jack DeJohnette, RIP

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He made much great music . This one is kind of a fusion version of speed metal. I have it on vinyl. Generally not my thing, but wow.
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Reading roundup

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The Hours Michael Cunningham A riff on Mrs. Dalloway , with its themes of madness, beauty, sexuality, and choosing between living and death,...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

D'Angelo, RIP

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Some of the best-sounding music ever made . Way too young.
Monday, September 15, 2025

Congratulations, Arthur Sze!

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Our next Poet Laureate is an excellent choice... Child of Chinese immigrants, teacher at Institute of American Indian Arts... How did this ...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Murder They Wrote

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Summertime is the time for crime novels, one of the genres my mother always called "escapist literature." And couldn't we all ...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Eddie Palmieri, RIP

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A giant . 
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Bill Sundstrom
I am a professor of economics at Santa Clara University. I like to write; hence this blog. Views expressed are mine and mine alone. Thanks for visiting. (Photo above: Diplacus aurantiacus, one of our lovely California native monkeyflowers.)
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