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Featuring essays and tributes by Stig Sæterbakken, Paul Vangelisti, and Jordi Savall, among others, including the featured artists themselves, the debut issue of Music & Literature shines a spotlight on three consummate artists who have yet to receive their due in the Anglophone world: Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, American writer Hubert Selby, Jr., and Saudi-born writer Micheline Aharonian Marcom. This volume includes the world premiere of over 25 pages of manuscripts, notebooks, and scores from the private archives of Arvo Pärt, courtesy of the International Arvo Pärt Centre, as well as two lost interviews with Hubert Selby, Jr., courtesy of Pacifica Radio Archives. We also present an extensive interview with Micheline Aharonian Marcom alongside excerpts from her forthcoming novel, The Nothing on Which the Fire Depends.