PLANET OF PERIL (51)

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

Read This Post

By Lynn Peril

MEDIA DIET

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

Read This Post

By Annalee Newitz

14th
Oct

Steve Coogan

As the trickster-philosopher Tony Wilson in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People STEVE COOGAN (born 1965) was jaunty, vulnerable, inspired, and frequently full of...
Read This Post

By James Parker

13th
Oct

The Book is a Weapon (3)

Artist: Broder, S. Title: “Books are weapons in the war of ideas : books cannot be killed by fire” Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S....
Read This Post

By Joshua Glenn

13th
Oct

Sacha Baron Cohen

The world’s foremost contemporary comic theorist led a teenage breakdance crew, and wrote his Cambridge thesis on the American Civil Rights movement before he...
Read This Post

By David Smay

12th
Oct

Middlebrow Bestsellers — Week of 10/11/09

1) THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Penguin, $15.) A former climber builds schools in villages in Pakistan and...
Read This Post

By HILOBROW

12th
Oct

Aleister Crowley

ALEISTER CROWLEY (1875–1947) Mountaineer, fiendish hedonist, and magus incandescent, ALEISTER CROWLEY (1875–1947) remains one of the more remarkable figures of Edwardian letters, though his...
Read This Post

By Erik Davis

11th
Oct

Winds of Magic (5): Pants afire

If your father presided over a blood-drinking sex cult whose membership also included the mailman, the doctor, the town drunk, and representatives of the...
Read This Post

By James Parker

11th
Oct

Harlan Stone

Along with Justices Brandeis and Cardozo, Justice (later Chief Justice) HARLAN STONE (1872-1946) was counted among the Three Musketeers — the progressive minority of...
Read This Post

By Tor Aarestad

10th
Oct

Ed Wood

Ironists don't understand Wood.
Read This Post

By Greg Rowland