CROSS YOUR ENTHUSIASM (10)
JOHN LURIE, DISRUPTOR
PLANET OF PERIL (53)
Career novels for boys — they did exist!
26th
Sep
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Winsor McCay
Brilliant at breaking down everyday life into discrete moments.
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25th
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Shel Silverstein
One of my favorite children’s books, the madcap Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot Back (1963), by SHEL SILVERSTEIN (1930-99), is about loneliness, friendship, and...
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24th
Sep
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Engaged vs. Disengaged Irony
A quick note about Neo-Dadaists and Pop Art. This item is excerpted from yesterday’s essay on the Postmodernist Generation. Neo-Dada artists Jasper Johns, Robert...
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24th
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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
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Postmodernists: 1924-33
Those born from 1924-33 are nearly impervious to Middlebrow's discourse.
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23rd
Sep
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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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