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So, again, encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is kai bird, im the new executive director of the Leon Levy Center for biography which is celebrating its tenth year now all due to shelby white and the leon levy foundation. And i want to advertise, first of all, our new alliance with bio. This is our first sort of jointlysponsored event with them, but we are also, courtesy of will swift here the president of bio, we are also going to be doing, cosponsoring their...

St. Joseph has a rich history with Jazz music and legends and its celebrating those legends with multiple jazz centered events this week.

The great American journalist and jazz enthusiast Stanley Crouch died in September 2020, yet his death was not given the proper recognition. COVID restrictions were still preventing a lot of mass gatherings, and the news was preoccupied with an election and other things. The recently released volume Victory is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch will hopefully do something to help correct that.

This season’s essays take a turn toward joy, laughter, and survival. In addition to collections from notable names, be on the lookout for a feminist biography of the Wife of Bath from Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.