down by the river
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A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
McBride has said that she wants this book to be read fast, letting it wash over you, but the struggle to make sense and to fill in the unsaid is hard to resist.
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Down by the River Festival, Berlin
Techno usually reigns at Bar 25’s sprawling riverside club, but last weekend at Berlin’s second annual Down By the River Festival folk music held sway. The festival brought more than twenty-four acts spanning the spectrum of music-made-by-people-with-actual-instruments from traditional singer-songwriters…