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    Justin Joffe



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    Remembering David Berman, Who Memorialized Suffering Through Song
    Justin Joffe Posted On August 8, 2019


    Wondering about the well-being of writers who put their darkness out there in the light, and share it with an audience, is a mystery with no sound resolution. David Berman, the late poet and songwriter of Silver Jews’ artful American […]


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    Steve Gunn Finds Empathy in Stories of the American Unseen
    Justin Joffe Posted On January 17, 2019


    There’s this expectation that a singer-songwriter must brand their identity in order to be successful, turning themselves into a character by telling some tall-tale version of an origin story. Crafting a mythology has become an unspoken rite of passage for […]


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