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Thirty Days…
In just thirty days—November 2—Encyclopedia of the Exquisite will hit bookshelves all over. Besides the big book shops, amazon.com, etc., John Derian in New York will sell Encyclopedia as will Marc Jacobs‘ BookMarc. To say that I’m excited is an…
“The Natural History of the Flirt”
“The Natural History of the Flirt,” by Albert Smith, published in 1848. This is just the kind of book that I would have flipped over while doing my research for Encyclopedia of the Exquisite. But it’s never to late to…
Dream Sequence
Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky‘s sublime Polaroids are as dreamy as his films. A few years ago a small book of Tarkovsky’s photographs, Instant Light, came out, to much acclaim. Now two blogs have posted a selection of the best of…
Wisconsin Death Trip
Wisconsin Death Trip is a book I come back to again and again, shop although it chills me to my bones. In the early Seventies, pharm author Michael Lesy assembled dozens of glass plate photographs, all taken in Jackson County,…
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