Artists on the Edge: Avant Garde or Off the Deep End?
Here’s an interesting piece from Paper Cuts by Jason Hartley, regarding his and Britt Bergman’s Theory of Advancement. If you’re not familiar with this premise, it basically states that artists who are sometimes thought to have “lost it” or “gone off the deep end” have actually moved beyond the comprehension of their adoring fans. Of [...]
Ben Macintyre’s Operation Mincemeat: The Man Who Actually Was
If you’ve never seen the 1956 World War II film The Man Who Never Was, you should. It’s a compelling fictionalized account of Allied attempts to fool the Nazis prior to the invasion of Sicily by planting fake documents on the corpse of a Welsh man. The new book Operation Mincemeat, by Ben Macintyre, tells [...]
25 Iconic Book Covers from AbeBooks
This is a pretty nifty list, compiled by the folks at AbeBooks and made up of twenty-five book covers they consider iconic. Of the twenty-five listed, I can only claim to own three with those particular covers. Of course, lists are by their nature bound to inspire disagreement, and they rarely satisfy anyone. But come [...]
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