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Bookshelf • Memoir

I Thought I Knew André Leon Talley—Then I Read The Chiffon Trenches

Television introduced the spectacle. The memoir revealed the survival.

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My First Impression of Lauryn Hill Was on Screen

Acting first. Music later. A personal review across performance, memory, and Jamaica.

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