Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year

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Fund Drive Special: Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year

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Today we speak with author Paul Alexander about his latest book Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year. During her lifetime and after her death, Billie Holiday was often depicted as a down-on-her-luck junkie severely lacking in self-esteem. Relying on interviews with people who knew her, and new material unearthed in … Continued

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Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year

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We speak with Paul Alexander about his book Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year. In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander “author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger” gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably Americas most eminent jazz … Continued