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    Hancock, McEwan, Mahler

    Indispensable greatness in music, novels, and cake: Herbie Hancock is up for album of the year at the Grammy’s, and the cinematic adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement just won the Golden Globe for Best Picture. Plus the strange tormented stateside life of Viennese composer Gustav Mahler. And a baker praises the one appliance she could never do without.

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    By Kurt Andersen • Jan 18, 2008 • 1 min read

    Indispensable greatness in music, novels, and cake: jazz legend Herbie Hancock and novelist Ian McEwan. Hancock is up for album of the year at the Grammy’s, and the cinematic adaptation of McEwan’s novel Atonement just won the Golden Globe for Best Picture. Plus the strange tormented stateside life of Viennese composer Gustav Mahler. And a baker praises the one appliance she could never do without: the KitchenAid mixer.

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      Kurt Andersen

      Author of "Evil Geniuses," "Fantasyland," and "You Can’t Spell America Without Me"

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