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PLANET OF PERIL (49)
TALKING CARS & DUMMIES
06th
Nov
Nov
Robert Musil
What do you do when you’re ROBERT MUSIL (1880-1942), when you’ve been nominated for a Nobel prize, when you live in abject poverty because...
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05th
Nov
Nov
R+M (5): CHICKEN, ORCHID, CHAMPAGNE
Robot: Chicken, Orchid, Champagne — by Matt Rebholz *** Robots and Monsters, a website that swaps custom-designed cartoons and pop art in exchange for...
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05th
Nov
Nov
Sam Shepard
Writing in 1949, Philip Rahv divided American literature into volatile, rebellious “redskins” and puritan, effete “palefaces.” Although Rahv was dividing the lowbrow from the...
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04th
Nov
Nov
Robert Mapplethorpe
Classically chiseled male bodies in sumptuous black and white.
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03rd
Nov
Nov
Walker Evans
I lived in California for nearly ten years, and whenever I would take the interminable ride up or down The Five, I would stick...
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02nd
Nov
Nov
Steve Ditko
Spider-Man and Dr. Strange co-creator STEVE DITKO (born 1927) is the third member of the triumvirate of genius that originally conceived the Marvel Universe....
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01st
Nov
Nov
Winds of Magic (8): The wild poet
In December 1984 a small but memorable press conference was held in an English pub. It had just been announced that Ted Hughes was...
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01st
Nov
Nov
Charlie Kaufman
CHARLIE KAUFMAN (born 1958) writes film scripts that zig when you expect a zag. Fantastic notions are met with deadpan nonchalance, creating comedy of...
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