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Bookworm, no. 128

Rob Benvie reviews Ray Robertson’s “Dust.” Daniel Green on Sibylle Grimbert’s “The Last of Its Kind.” A cover artist Q&A. Inside the January/February issue.

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Dec 30, 2025
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Fret Detection

Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)
Ray Robertson
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288 pages, softcover and ebook

Ray Robertson’s Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) lifts its title and premise from Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, a biographical compendium published in 1779. While Johnson conceived and critiqued a canon o…

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