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Sedge Thomson welcomes...

Shelton Johnson, author of Gloryland, his novel of Elijah Yancy, a buffalo soldier stationed in the new Yosemite National Park.

August Kleinzahler, author of Music I - LXXIV, the acclaimed poet's "deceptively insouciant" [says Jonathan Lethem] thoughts on music.

Tips on Travel with Karl and Carl, with ever-so-distinguished insights on essential holiday movement - to family, away from family, laden with gifts and gilt and guilt. (As portrayed by Michael O'Brien and Geoff Bolt (or Geoff Bolt and Michael O'Brien).

Gerald Nachman, author of Right Here on Our Stage Tonight - Ed Sullivan's America, a history not so much of the show (though it is) but how a long-running variety show changed television and ourselves..

The Hot Club's Cool Yule, le jazz hot does festive.

The Rollicking Mike Greensill.

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