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Here, musical legends feel like flesh-and-blood figures, especially as Dylan navigates Seeger as the old-guard angel on one shoulder and Bob’s pen pal Johnny Cash (Boyd Holbrook) as the rebel devil on the other.
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
Shortly after joining the Daily News in November 1976, columnist Jimmy Breslin became a marquee name for the paper — and would soon become a larger than life figure after a serial killer terrorizing New York City chose him as a pen pal.
—For The New York Daily News, New York Daily News, 3 Nov. 2024
He was born in Gothenburg to a Swedish father and Hawaiian mother, who met in the 1960s having been pen pals for years.
—Rick Jordan, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2024
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Set in a vivid and magical world full of spooky details, The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy is a wholly unique story of a marshal who patrols a supernatural world (Hart) and an undertaker (Mercy) who inadvertently become pen pals.
—Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
Shortly after joining the Daily News in November 1976, columnist Jimmy Breslin became a marquee name for the paper — and would soon become a larger than life figure after a serial killer terrorizing New York City chose him as a pen pal.
—For The New York Daily News, New York Daily News, 3 Nov. 2024
He was born in Gothenburg to a Swedish father and Hawaiian mother, who met in the 1960s having been pen pals for years.
—Rick Jordan, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2024
Buy Now 05 of 22 'The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy' by Megan Bannen
Set in a vivid and magical world full of spooky details, The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy is a wholly unique story of a marshal who patrols a supernatural world (Hart) and an undertaker (Mercy) who inadvertently become pen pals.
—Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Pen pal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pen%20pal. Accessed 9 Jan. 2025.
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