• About Kirk

  Kirk McElhearn writes about Macs, iPods, iPads, iTunes, books, music and more. He's written a dozen books, is a Senior Contributor to Macworld, where he is The iTunes Guy, and writes for several other web sites and magazines. He reviews classical CDs for MusicWeb and audiobooks for Audiofile, and is a French-English translator.

  

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• Some of My Favorite Things

  Words: Reading Ralph Waldo Emerson | More Ralph Waldo Emerson | Henry David Thoreau | Transcendentalism | More Transcendentalism | Henry James | More Henry James | Herman Melville | Walt Whitman | Library of America | Samuel Beckett | James Joyce | Marcel Proust | William Shakespeare | Jean Shepherd | Literary translation | Inspector Banks | Robert B. Parker

  Music: The Grateful Dead | Johann Sebastian Bach | Bach cantatas | The Durutti Column | Charles Ives | Toru Takemitsu | Einojuhani Rautavaara | Franz Schubert | Schubert lieder | Bill Evans | Brad Mehldau | Brian Eno | Wim Mertens | MusicWeb

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