PLANET OF PERIL (51)
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MEDIA DIET
Annalee Newitz on: paperbacks, “Interview with the Vampire,” 404Media.
04th
Nov
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Robert Mapplethorpe
Classically chiseled male bodies in sumptuous black and white.
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03rd
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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
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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
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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
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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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31st
Oct
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Neal Stephenson
No one writes edge-of-your-seat, action-packed, cinematic cliffhangers better than NEAL STEPHENSON (born 1959), and that’s just the talking-heads parts of his novels of ideas....
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30th
Oct
Oct
The Book is a Weapon (6)
Title: “This is the enemy.” Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. G.P.O. : Distributed by Division of Public Inquiry, Office of War Information Date: 1943....
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30th
Oct
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Ezra Pound
In a wire cage in the Pisan sun at the end of the Second World War, the forces of chaos and order clashed for...
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