Mystic Poet
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Dancing in the Streets is a history of outbreaks of collective joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead.
In Arthur & George, Julian Barnes mixes fact and fiction,
linking Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with a wrongfully convicted Victorian
author.
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