2009
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Thomas Allen’s Pop-Up Pulp
The January 2010 Harper’s Magazine (print) features a few photographs from Thomas Allen’s “Epilogue,” the last in his long series of photographs of transformed pulp fiction book covers. This was the first I’d seen of Allen’s incredible work, even though…
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BLICKFANG – The Eye-Catching Covers of Weimar Berlin
Illus. and design by Oskar Garvens, book cover, Germany, 1925
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Funny Women Around the Web
To start a revolution, we need more than just a column. Occasionally we’d like to link to particularly hysterical funny women all over the Internet. Edith Zimmerman at The Awl makes me laugh. Below is an excerpt from her column, Letters…
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Morning Coffee
Something happened and Morning Coffee missed the schedule. We’re not sure why. Ruben Brulat takes some pretty amazingly epic self-portaits. Dutch library design porn. Monkey syntax! Eight ways in-vitro meat will change our lives. (via MeFi.) Evidently a new species…
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The Rumpus Review of Bad Lieutenant
In Herzog’s non-remake of Bad Lieutenant, Nic Cage tumbles into the farthest reaches of drugged, lawless mania, resembling a coked-up Willy Wonka.
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John Crowley’s Little Lessons From The Masters
“He writes with a typewriter, beginning with the first page, with a situation he has been brooding about, and some sense of the implications or characters involved, but no real storyline. He probes forward with this, discovering as he goes…
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What Buildings Would You Ban?
“Fear, on one side, of watching Europe turn into “Eurabia” —even if the demographics don’t justify such worries—and, on the other, of seeing centuries’ worth of social liberalization—including women’s suffrage and gay rights—fall apart in the face of religious conservatism,…
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Water Causes Cancer And Other Truths
Time Magazine has already called it “The Decade From Hell.” (Couldn’t have been worse than the 1940’s?! Could it? I mean the 40’s had Hitler AND Stalin.) And if you have survived the “aughts” reasonably intact as we caterwaul our…
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Random Media Notes
Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Review are going out of business. Read the internal memo. More info here. Variety erects beta online pay wall. Three top women newspaper editors plan to leave their jobs, leaving only two of the top…
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Iranian Kid’s Books (Part 3)
Long Neck Gazelle by Djamsheed Sepahi , illustrated by Yoota Azargeen (thanks to roma cintilante for providing details!) I have no information about most of the books featured in this post, except that they are from Iran.