DEPARTMENT OF BAD TIMING: Jonathan Chait’s Post-Election Obama Book Do-Over

Posted: December 3, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, White House | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Super Science and Fantastic Stories: ‘Lord of Death: The Last Secret of a Dead Planet’

Posted: August 7, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Front Page Detective: ‘My Price Is Murder”

Posted: April 4, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Pulp Cover: ‘Sailor’s Weekend’

Posted: November 12, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’

Posted: November 11, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Reading Room | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Vintage Book Cover: James Bond

Posted: November 7, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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[BOOKS] Blue on Blue: Cover of Doug Henwood’s Forthcoming Hillary Clinton Book 

Posted: November 1, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, White House | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Erica K. Landau reports: It’s not just Republicans who get riled by the thought of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton ascending to the presidency. Some people on the left lock horns over Clinton often enough to suggest that Team Hillary still has a long way to go before she has shored up the traditional base of progressive voters.

The forthcoming book, “My Turn,” by Nation Magazine Contributing Editor Doug Henwood, critiques the former secretary of state’s decades-long political career, calling out her foreign policy positions and purported connections to big-money interests, among other contentious points. Read the rest of this entry »

Pulp Fiction: ‘The White Dress’, 1946

Posted: October 25, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

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1946 Random House hardcover, 1949 Bantam paperback reissue

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Pulp Fiction: ‘Super-Detective’

Posted: October 12, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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April 1942 issue

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Pulp Fiction Cover: ‘Murder Will In’, 1944

Posted: August 30, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Vintage Book Cover: ‘The Core of All Matter’

Posted: August 5, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Education, Science & Technology | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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‘Atomic Nemisis’: Now in Paperback!

Posted: August 5, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, The Butcher's Notebook, War Room, White House | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

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Science Fiction Cover: ‘A is for Astronaut’

Posted: August 1, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Reading Room, Space & Aviation | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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‘Death and Taxes’

Posted: April 15, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Crime & Corruption, Entertainment, Humor, Reading Room | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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‘Death and Taxes’ by David Dodge, Cover Art by Rudolph Belarski

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Celebrities as Neoclassical Paintings

Posted: March 15, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Celebrities as Neoclassical paintings by Replaceface

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Pulp Fiction: ‘Final Terror’

Posted: March 13, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Vintage Book Cover: ‘The Jetsons‘

Posted: February 10, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

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Obamcare Pulp Fiction: ‘But The Patient…’

Posted: February 2, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Health and Social Issues, White House | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Pulp Fiction Cover: ‘Dark Threat’

Posted: January 20, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

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1946 Lippencott hardcover

1951 Popular Library paperback reissue with new title

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

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New Detective: ‘Blood On My Doorstep’

Posted: September 24, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Mediasphere | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Things a Boy can do with Electricity

Posted: August 23, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Science & Technology | Tags: , , , , , , | 2 Comments

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