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Catch Dave Hickey’s Collection of Criticism a ‘Perfect Wave’ and You’ll Enjoy the Ride
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Catch Dave Hickey’s Collection of Criticism a ‘Perfect Wave’ and You’ll Enjoy the Ride

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Randal Doane
/ 24 January 2018

In Hickey's formulation, what is raw is hot. What is cooked is cool. Art and democracy are better served by cool cats, not hotheads.

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It’s Yesterday Once More in ‘Little Girl Blue’

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Zachary Houle
/ 1 September 2011
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J.D. Salinger’s Seymour, a Eulogy

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Chadwick Jenkins
/ 4 February 2010
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Carpenters: Singles 1969-81

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PopMatters Staff
/ 22 May 2000

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