"The Blues Tells a Story" - John Lee Hooker

And that’s exactly what Judith Podell does in Blues for Beginners: Stories and Obsessions.

The title story, a riff on how to write the blues, struck such a familiar chord when it was originally published, it was instantly claimed by the world at large as something that somehow belonged to all of us.

Throughout the other nine stories, Podell continues to hit all the right notes -- whether she’s writing about Greenwich Village in the 70s or Washington, DC in the 80s, group therapy, bad boyfriends or sex in a fallout shelter--she takes us back to a time when first jobs, like first loves, weren’t how we were going to spend the rest of our lives.

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