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Time heals all wounds.

Vlautin is also a novelist, his most recent book, “The Horse,” came out last summer. I missed it then but I am covering it now because it is simply too marvelous to ignore. It is the story of Al.

When I heard the news Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa had been found dead at their home in Santa Fe it stirred up some memories. I met them once and it was on a rather literary occasion.

As I’m writing this column I’m listening to “Mr. Luck and Ms. Doom,” the latest album by The Delines. These songs were all written by their guitarist, Willy Vlautin. The band’s sound has been ...