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Ever since living in Athens years ago, another of my passions is Greek soul music—that’s what I call rembetika and other popular musical forms that spring from love and heartbreak. It’ll pierce your soul, the way that George Dalaras and Babis Stokas sing. And their musicians are cooking. The song, enas kombos i xara mou, takes me back my early days as a writer, when I first felt that small knot of joy within me.
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My new book is a field trip to a long-ago world filled with superstition, science, and the folks who believed in both. Its 88 lively chapters explore offbeat topics, from high-tech superships to honey embalming, from stench wars to early werewolves.
Booklist calls it “an endlessly fascinating book, full of things that are shocking, unsettling, and just plain weird.”
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