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In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
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Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
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Feast your eyes on these beautiful bygone magazine covers.
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By
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The Triumph of Broadway After 9/11—and How the Show Will Go on Post-Pandemic
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From
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The Quarantine Tapes
| October 8, 2020
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"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"