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REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “I had two broken horses…and they were the most unbroken creatures I’ve met here on earth.” I remember the moment I first registered Brandi Carlile as a formidable artist. By happenstance, I caught her 2019 performance of “The Joke” at the 61st Grammy Awards. I sat transfi...
REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “She had known from a young age that everyone had darkness inside – some just controlled it better than others. Very few people believed that they were bad, and this was the scariest part.” Danya Kukafka’s new novel explores the media-saturated, voyeuristic world of ...
REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “If it’s possible to be fearless and vulnerable at the same time, she was. It was the thing that made her unstoppable. And very disarming.” It’s hard to not have some opinion of Madonna, a star whose career has spanned generations. So, when I heard about the new biography ...