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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Write About Me!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Dylan at Ginsburg&#8217;s typewriter) A few days ago I got an email confirming that something I suggested to someone a few months ago had resulted in a cool thing. Nothing scandalous, but it made a fun story. Something. Someone. Thing. Nothing. No, this is not an exercise in bad (i.e., purposely vague) writing. Please read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousmuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12376317&#038;post=749&#038;subd=luminousmuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Finally Done!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father&#8217;s last book is about to be published: FINAL BOOK OF CHURCHILL TRILOGY COMING THIS FALL By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer – 4 days ago NEW YORK (AP) — The third and final volume of the late William Manchester&#8217;s beloved series on Winston Churchill is coming out this fall, nearly 25 years since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousmuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12376317&#038;post=748&#038;subd=luminousmuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen King and My Dad (Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In researching his alternate history of JFK’s assassination, 11/22/63, Stephen King did his homework – reading “a stack of books and articles on the subject almost as tall as I am.” In researching his non-fiction work on the same subject, Death of a President, my father conducted over 1000 interviews, many made possible by Jackie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousmuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12376317&#038;post=735&#038;subd=luminousmuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen King and my dad (Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading Stephen King’s latest – 11/2/63, an alternate history of JFK’s assassination &#8211; when I ran into my father. I was using the Kindle app on my iPad, so I can’t say which page it was on, only that it was location 1071, 8% through the book. My father would have been horrified [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousmuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12376317&#038;post=731&#038;subd=luminousmuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a speaker’s lunch at the Casual Connect convention I sat down next to a fellow who shook my hand, “Charles Cox, Microsoft.” He saw my company name tag, “You guys do music? Great, I need some.” A moment later he had his phone out and was showing me his game. I thought – Things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousmuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12376317&#038;post=728&#038;subd=luminousmuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs &#8211; Acid Visionary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until he died this week, I never paid much attention to Steve Jobs. I was vaguely aware of the dramatic ups and down in his career, and that he was some intense guy with a vision. I was too busy working on and playing with the products he created to notice to the man behind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousmuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12376317&#038;post=725&#038;subd=luminousmuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FROM D.I.Y. TO A TEAM OF EXPERTS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DIY is all the rage in music production these days. Which explains the success of everything from Garage Band to phenomena like Pamplamouse. And who doesn’t want to have their own recording studio/digital worksatation to play with? Especially if it costs next to nothing, or comes free with your Mac. We’ve all seen the downsides [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousmuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12376317&#038;post=722&#038;subd=luminousmuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Manchester Music Got to Casual Connect</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Manchester Back when my sons were small I was composing fulltime. I came in from the studio one day to find them in front of our TV, clacking away at some unfamiliar gizmos hooked to a black box, which in turn ran into the TV. Odd animated characters jumped around on the screen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousmuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12376317&#038;post=718&#038;subd=luminousmuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Authenticity and the 60s</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(NOTE: This post is a follow up to my article in salon.com:http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/06/18/father_after_death_open2011) “Teach your children well. Their father’s hell did slowly go by. And feed them on their dreams….” –Graham Nash Frank Sinatra is haunting Mrs. Muse and me. Not our house. We don’t wake to the sound of a ghostly rat pack stumbling around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousmuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12376317&#038;post=714&#038;subd=luminousmuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[A visit from the Goon Squad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jennifer Egan: Invisible Circus (1995) Look at Me (2001) The Keep (2006) A Visit From the Goon Squad (2010) Pulitzer Prize My tastes in music range from high to low. It doesn’t faze me when my iPod shuffles from Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis to the Carpenters. Both please me, though in different ways. It’s the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luminousmuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12376317&#038;post=711&#038;subd=luminousmuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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