PATSY YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2)
SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD
MEDIA DIET
Deb Chachra on: the Library app, Midnight Radio, Vancouver museums.
24th
Sep
Sep
John Brunner
The popularity of apocalyptic fiction in the Sixties (1964-73), it has been suggested, indicates that SF writers had become bored and suspicious of utopian...
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23rd
Sep
Sep
Postmodernists: 1924-33
Those born from 1924-33 are nearly impervious to Middlebrow's discourse.
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23rd
Sep
Sep
John Coltrane
Until 1964, JOHN COLTRANE (1926-67) was a virtuoso, blasting out bebop as wing-man to the likes of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, and later...
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22nd
Sep
Sep
Joan Jett
The time: 1977. The place: the hinterlands of Wisconsin. My friend Jacqué (pronounced “Jackie,” of course) and I are huddled together in her smoked-mirror-tiled...
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21st
Sep
Sep
Ambivalent about New Age?
HILOBROW is superficially similar, as we’ve noted, to Middlebrow. So HiLobrow despises Middlebrow for the same reason that idlers detest slackers, and punks detest...
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21st
Sep
Sep
Middlebrow Bestsellers — this week
A service that we may or may not continue to offer. Thanks to our friends at the New York Times for doing the primary...
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21st
Sep
Sep
The Best Book Ever
In the 1990s, the artists Komar and Melamid began polling art lovers to discover the world’s ideal painting. I’m curious to learn whether we...
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