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Mandel's media diet

About the Substack

Hearing, viewing, reading -- music, movies, books

About Howard Mandel

Chicago-born, New York-fired, hometown-returned. Loves music (jazz, blues, new and unusual), fiction ( crime, humor, classics, myths), words, talking, learning.

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