Editors ROBERT GOTTLIEB and ROBERT KIMBALL have collaborated on the new book –Reading Lyrics— (Pantheon Books), an anthology of some of the most important lyricists of the last century, including the lyrics of George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Dorothy Field, Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer, and more. The book covers the time period 1900-1975. ROBERT GOTTLIEB is the author of –Reading Jazz,— and ROBERT KIMBALL is the editor of complete lyrics collections of Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, and Lorenz Hart. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE
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