Articles: 2014
Remembering the Buena Vista Social Club
Editor’s Note: Alec Wilkinson appeared with poet Edward Hirsch at the Miami Book Fair International in November, 2014. ArtSpeak interviewed Alec during the Book Fair, and excerpts from that interview appear in the “Video” section of the ArtSpeak website. To provide an example of Wilkinson’s clear, crisp, yet elegant writing style, I asked Alec to send me one of his short music commentaries that he had previously published in The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” section. rse The following piece ran in The New Yorker in 1999. Of the...
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