On the Night Table: Colin James

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Colin James

Singer-songwriter and author, Playing the Changes: A Musician’s Memoir

Everything I’m reading right now is kinda heavy lifting. I’m reading Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump — like I need to hear anything more about Trump, but here I go.

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I just started the Roy Cohn book, American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump, by Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark. And I’ve got End Times Fascism I’m reading by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. Oh God, what am I? A sucker for punishment, that’s what.

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