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Sam Stephenson

Sam Stephenson’s next book, Gene Smith’s Sink, will be published in August by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A North Carolina native and longtime resident of Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, Stephenson now lives with his family in Bloomington, Indiana. icon

Durham and the Art of Cool

By Sam Stephenson & Ivan Weiss

May 2016 in downtown Durham, North Carolina, was marked by two weekend music festivals, the Art of Cool and Moogfest, which were presented in the ...

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