PLANET OF PERIL (51)

How did Tombstone become the mascot of the San Francisco Press Club?

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By Lynn Peril

MEDIA DIET

Annalee Newitz on: paperbacks, “Interview with the Vampire,” 404Media.

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By Annalee Newitz

24th
Nov

The Sovereignties of Invention

HE STOOD THERE with the box torn open, with ribbons of packing tape and flaccid little packing-bags strewn about on the table. And in...
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By Matthew Battles

24th
Nov

Honesty

“It will pay all to remember the shape of this head and face.” *** According to Louis Allen Vaught, the purpose of Vaught’s Practical...
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By HILOBROW

24th
Nov

Kantian Pecha Kucha

HiLobrow.com friend and contributor Douglas Wolk presents Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgment… in five minutes. Using comic book art. At Ignite Portland 7, last...
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By Joshua Glenn

24th
Nov

Stephen Merchant

If you were to approach STEPHEN MERCHANT (born 1974) and berate him for looking like a myopic ostrich, he would stare vacantly back at...
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By Patrick Cates

23rd
Nov

Quatschwatch (4): Cuddly Cthulhu

The final paragraph of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth’s The Lurker at the Threshold (1945) describes an uncanny scene that nicely limns the Cthulhu...
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By Joshua Glenn

23rd
Nov

Harpo Marx

ARTHUR ADOLPH “HARPO” MARX (1888-1964) was a philosopher of silence. Though it started as a way to distinguish him from his voluble brothers, especially...
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By Mark Kingwell

23rd
Nov

The Cinematic Possibilities of Pop-up Books

At Slate last week, Troy Patterson argued that books don’t need to be promoted with the kind of flashy, light-beer cinema that is the...
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By Matthew Battles

22nd
Nov

Chess Match (1)

ORANGE: Egmont, our interests have for years weighed upon my heart; I ever stand as over a chess-board, and regard no move of my...
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By Joshua Glenn