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The Life and Works of Martha Graham

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A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the MonthWinner of the 2022 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award“Deborah Jowitt chronicles a life passionately, artfully lived. An essential read about a true legend.” —Mikhail Baryshnikov“A study in balance and grace.” <st... ... Read more

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A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the MonthWinner of the 2022 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award“Deborah Jowitt chronicles a life passionately, artfully lived. An essential read about a true legend.” —Mikhail Baryshnikov“A study in balance and grace.” <st...
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"Deborah Jowitt chronicles a life passionately, artfully lived. An essential read about a true legend." —Mikhail BaryshnikovIn the pantheon of American modernists, few figures loom larger than Martha Graham. One of the greatest choreographers ever to live, Graham pioneered a revolutionary dance technique—primal, dynamic, and rooted in the emotional life of the body—that upended traditional ... Read more

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"Deborah Jowitt chronicles a life passionately, artfully lived. An essential read about a true legend." —Mikhail BaryshnikovIn the pantheon of American modernists, few figures loom larger than Martha Graham. One of the greatest choreographers ever to live, Graham pioneered a revolutionary dance technique—primal, dynamic, and rooted in the emotional life of the body—that upended traditional
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True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

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A witty and addictively readable day-by-day literary companion.At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader's Book of Days features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the margin of her own writing, "Is it ... Read more

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