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The Vault contains more than 400 essays by Ted Gioia on various topics (mostly literary). It is available only to paid subscribers to The Honest Broker
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The 100 Best Albums of 2020
Here are my favorite recordings of the year (all genres, all styles)
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Ted Gioia
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
Imagine a disjunctive moment of historic importance—at a stroke of a clock, present and future are irreparably torn from the anchor of the past. In the…
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Ted Gioia
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The 100 Best Albums of 2013
Here are my favorite recordings of the year (all genres, all styles)
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Ted Gioia
The 100 Best Albums of 2012
Here are my favorite recordings of the year (all genres, all styles)
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Ted Gioia
The 100 Best Albums of 2011
Here are my favorite recordings of the year (all styles, all genres)
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Ted Gioia
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Essay by Ted Gioia In the opening pages of 1Q84, Aomame is rushing to make an appointment. Her taxi is stuck in a traffic jam on a Tokyo expressway. The…
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Ted Gioia
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2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Essay by Ted Gioia Here is a reasonable rule of thumb for sci-fi readers: if the movie came first, then you can skip the book. But if the book came…
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Ted Gioia
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