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Letters at 3AM: BigBoy’s ‘Slap Noir’
James BigBoy Medlin’s ‘Slap Noir’ changed my life in a most concrete fashion
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How to Write a Book
If you think you have a book in you, it’s important to find out if you really do
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Letters at 3AM: Today, 100 Years Ago
On Feb. 7, 1914, the world first beheld Charlie Chaplin on the screen in his iconic getup
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Letters at 3AM: February 1914
Charlie Chaplin’s iconic Tramp was really born in ‘Kid Auto Races at Venice,’ not ‘Mabel’s Strange Predicament,’ as commonly thought
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Letters at 3AM: The Capacity to Take It
Perseverance is the spine of the human condition
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Letters at 3AM: If We Make It Through December
Everywhere I looked for a merry Christmas, I found contradictions too disturbing to ignore and paradoxes too entrenched to resolve
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Letters at 3AM: JFK and That Hard Rain
When boomers and their offspring die out, Kennedy’s assassination will have the approximate historical echo of William McKinley’s
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Letters at 3AM: In Greta Garbo’s Bungalow
As beautiful as Greta Garbo was, she was something more
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He Took the Cat to Texas: Part 2
Suicide was the last lens through which Mayer Vishner gazed upon life