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Nora Holt was the first Black person in the United States to earn a master’s degree in music. A prolific composer and a club-hopping socialite, she once wrote a 42-page work for a 100-piece orchestra.

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Thurston Moore, who has a memoir, “Sonic Life,” and is completing a novel, “Parsnip & Boomerang,” visits the Strand and ...

The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look.