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  • If you don’t know about Jake Shimabukuro (as I didn’t two days ago), you should. Because this man is an artist. He doesn’t let anything stand between him and his art—not the difficulties of his chosen craft, not assumptions about any particular piece of music, not preconceptions about his instrument. He just dives into it, invests every single ounce of energy and talent and sheer dogged hard work he has in his body, and smiles with all his heart.

    He’s an inspiration in pretty much all possible directions.

    And I’m pretty certain this is the way the Bohemian Rhapsody sounded inside Freddy Mercury’s head.

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One Response to “Falling in love with the ukulele”

  1. I was shopping for ukuleles this past Christmas thanks to this kid. We ended up buying a harmonica. :)




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Short story author Scott Warrender is a Mentoring Program client. I have done full Copy, Line, & Developmental Editing on a number of short stories for him, the first of which was his poignant fictional memoir of Africa, ''The Boy With the Newsprint Kite,'' now published in the Foundling Review.

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Bhaichand Patel is the author of two nonfiction books: Chasing the Good Life (Penguin Books India, October, 2006), and Happy Hours (Penguin Books India, October, 2009). I edited Patel's debut novel, When the Streets Were Cold and Dark.


I've edited a number of nonfiction essays for my friend Lucia Orth. (Many years ago, my contribution to Baby Jesus Pawn Shop was simply a peer critique and participation in a standing ovation.)


The poet Chris Ryan is the author of The Bible of Animal Feet (Farfalla Press, 2007). He has recent stories in Pank, Anemone Sidecar, and A Cappella Zoo. I edited Ryan's novel The Ishmael Blade and worked with him on his debut novel Heliophobia and WIP Pogue.