“What these people in their midtwenties were doing, although none of them were aware of it at the time, was building the rock canon. In this they were more successful than they could have dared hope. Many of the musicians who made those 1971 records are still playing today, in bigger venues than ever, in […]
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We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy…A Very Oral History (Sarah Crichton Books, $31)
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up It has long been said in the comedy world that “women aren’t funny.” It was even the subject of a Vanity Fair article by Christopher Hitchens (a well-written piece that, like everything by him, was serious and I must admit rather convincing). I for one had never carried […]

