50 Songs That Explain America
From Sinatra to SZA, Appalachian folk to Detroit funk, a journey through the music that showed one British critic this country’s soul
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James Parker
James Parker is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive. Since 2011, Parker has been running the Black Seed Writers Group—a weekly writing workshop for homeless, transitional, and recently housed writers—and editing The Pilgrim, a literary magazine from the homeless community of downtown Boston.
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