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Unpublished and unfinished works

Issue 83: It’s okay to leave work in the cutting room floor

David Hoang
Mar 13, 2022
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Unpublished and unfinished works

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When Tyka Nelson's brother, a musician, passed away in 2016, she inherited a significant portion of his estate that included thousands of unpublished songs—thousands. Nelson recalls her late brother telling her, “I won’t get off this planet until he gets every single solitary thing he worked so hard for and preserved for all of the world to hear.” That …

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