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Nitin Sawhney recommended Searching for Sugar Man (2012) in Movies (curated)

Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

2012 | Biography, Documentary, Music

7.0

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"A superb documentary about the once little-known American singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, and his huge popularity in South Africa, which starts with a rumour about him killing himself by setting fire to himself on stage. His real story then reveals itself to be very different. This film delves into mythology, how it develops, and the way we elevate musicians as beacons in culture. It’s also a film about an incredibly underrated guy, and how difficult it was to find lost stars before the internet took off. It couldn’t happen now."

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Andrew Solomon recommended Tohe Rootabaga Stories in Books (curated)

Tohe Rootabaga Stories

Carl Sandburg | 2010

(0 Ratings)

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"Grossly underappreciated, this is in my view the best of all children’s books—wildly, passionately imaginative, gently moral, and quintessentially American both in its diction and in a certain rough-hewn but kindly common sense. I also choose it because it was read to me by my father when I was a little boy, and it became for some time our private world, and so rereading it always carries me back to a very happy stage when I was more innocent than I knew: I associate it with love."

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