In 2014, author Donald Newlove (1928-2021) put together a collection of articles he had written between 1954 and 1981 that had previously appeared in such publications as Esquire, Evergreen Review, The Village Voice, and New York Magazine . He titled this compilation Trumpet Rhapsodies , describing it as "a kind of autobiography of my early days as a writer and of my search for a language that trumpeted my youth." The subject matter of these 15 pieces is wide-ranging. Among the topics, Newlove writes of being chosen to play Taps at a military funeral despite being a "less-than-amateur" musician, witnessing (and participating in) the filming of Andy Warhol's first musical, meeting Chilean poet and politician Pablo Neruda, a spirited dinner at the home of American poet Robert Lowell, his own venture into filmmaking, a run-in with Florida racists and law enforcement, and the secrets of New York City's Strand Book Store.