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Ben Lewellyn-Taylor

Ben Lewellyn-Taylor is a high school educator in Dallas, Texas. He has contributed frequently to DJBooth, a site for hip-hop opinion, and his creative writing has appeared in several online literary magazines, including New South Journal, which ran his series of nonsermons for four months. Ben received his Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Writing from Texas Christian University and his Master of Theological Studies from Brite Divinity School. His work can be found at https://bentaylorblogs.com/.

A Group, a Sound and an Era

After reading Go Ahead in the Rain, I hope that Hanif Abdurraqib is not the last person to choose a deep and abiding love for the music that makes us real to one another.

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A Small Revolution Within a Larger One

Toews’s brave humor, which has added grace and depth to such weighty topics as suicide in the past, is still present, chiefly in the irony of a male narrator, August Epps, who must take notes on the women’s meeting because they are unable to read and write, having lived in a religious community that does not allow them to.

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Like Magic

A book arrives to readers already finished. If we allow ourselves to be mystified as we age, we might wonder at the object in our hands.

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Suburban Wars

Carr maps the birth of industrial music as a “poetic response” to the end of the Industrial Era, when the decline of manufacturing economies thrust the Midwest into financial crises from which the area never fully recovered.

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To Whom Does Music Belong?

Like Karen Carpenter, Lhasa de Sela and her family pursued an American vision of success, even if Lhasa’s story was more invested in the pursuit of personal fulfillment than of normalcy.

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