DEPARTMENT OF BAD TIMING: Jonathan Chait’s Post-Election Obama Book Do-Over
Posted: December 3, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, White House | Tags: 2016, Audacity, Barack Obama, Book Cover, Donald Trump, Donald Trump presidential campaign, fake news, Federal Bureau of Investigation, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Jonathan Chait, Parody, President of the United States, Presidential Biography, Presidential History, Republican Party (United States), satire, United States Leave a comment
“Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail.” Out in January. Pre-order: https://t.co/IsXHRt4dvZpic.twitter.com/mmHEzFvZVT
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) December 2, 2016
Super Science and Fantastic Stories: ‘Lord of Death: The Last Secret of a Dead Planet’
Posted: August 7, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: Book Cover, design, Illustration, Mystery, Pulp, Sci-fi, Science fiction, Thriller, typography, vintage Leave a comment
Front Page Detective: ‘My Price Is Murder”
Posted: April 4, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: Adventure, Book Cover, Cover Art Design, Crime fiction, Illustration, Magazines, murder, Paperback, Pulp, pulp fiction, Thriller, typography, vintage Leave a comment
Pulp Cover: ‘Sailor’s Weekend’
Posted: November 12, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Adventure, Book Cover, Crime fiction, design, Illustration, Mystery, novel, Paperback, pulp fiction, Romance, Thriller Leave a comment
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Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’
Posted: November 11, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Reading Room | Tags: Arthur Miller, Book Cover, Books, design, Illustration, Paperback, typography, vintage Leave a comment
Vintage Book Cover: James Bond
Posted: November 7, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: Adventure, Book Cover, Ian Fleming, James Bond, Mystery, novel, Paperback, Spy Novel, Thriller, vintage Leave a comment
[BOOKS] Blue on Blue: Cover of Doug Henwood’s Forthcoming Hillary Clinton Book
Posted: November 1, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Book Cover, Books, CNN, Cover Art, David Axelrod, Democratic Party (United States), Hillary Clinton, Media Research Center, Melissa Harris-Perry (TV program), MSNBC, NBC News, Sarah Palin, The Pantsuit Report Leave a comment
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 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: 1940s, Bantam, Bantam Books, Book Cover, Books, Crime fiction, design, Illustration, Mignon G. Eberhart, Mystery, Paperback, pulp fiction, Random House, Romance, Thriller, typography, vintage 1 Comment
1946 Random House hardcover, 1949 Bantam paperback reissue
Pulp Fiction: ‘Super-Detective’
Posted: October 12, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: 1940s, Adventure, Book Cover, Crime fiction, Crime novel, design, Illustration, Mystery, Paperback, pulp fiction, Super Detective, suspense, Thriller, typography, vintage Leave a comment
April 1942 issue
Pulp Fiction Cover: ‘Murder Will In’, 1944
Posted: August 30, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: Book Cover, Books, Crime fiction, design, Illustration, Mystery, pulp fiction, Thriller, typography Leave a comment
Vintage Book Cover: ‘The Core of All Matter’
Posted: August 5, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Education, Science & Technology | Tags: Atoms, Book Cover, Books, design, Illustration, Textbook, typography, vintage Leave a comment
‘Atomic Nemisis’: Now in Paperback!
Posted: August 5, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, The Butcher's Notebook, War Room, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Book Cover, Illustration, Iran, Mullah, Mystery, Nuke Deal, Nukes, Parody, propaganda, pulp fiction, satire, Science fiction, Thriller 1 Comment
Science Fiction Cover: ‘A is for Astronaut’
Posted: August 1, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Reading Room, Space & Aviation | Tags: Book Cover, design, Magazine, Mystery, Paperback, pulp fiction, Science fiction, Thriller, typography Leave a comment
‘Death and Taxes’
Posted: April 15, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Crime & Corruption, Entertainment, Humor, Reading Room | Tags: Book Cover, Crime fiction, Death and Taxes, design, graphics, Illustration, IRS, Paperback, pulp fiction, Thriller, typography, vintage Leave a comment
‘Death and Taxes’ by David Dodge, Cover Art by Rudolph Belarski
Celebrities as Neoclassical Paintings
Posted: March 15, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere | Tags: Acroterion, Ancient Greek architecture, Athens, Barcelona, Book Cover, Bottega Veneta, design, Illustration, media, Neoclassical architecture Leave a comment
Celebrities as Neoclassical paintings by Replaceface
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Pulp Fiction: ‘Final Terror’
Posted: March 13, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: Book Cover, Books, Crime fiction, design, Fiction, Illustration, Mystery, pulp fiction, Thriller Leave a comment
Vintage Book Cover: ‘The Jetsons‘
Posted: February 10, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics | Tags: Book Cover, Cover Art, design, Hanna Barbara, Illustration, Little Golden Book, media, The Jetsons, TV, typography 1 Comment
Obamcare Pulp Fiction: ‘But The Patient…’
Posted: February 2, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Health and Social Issues, White House | Tags: Book Cover, Crime fiction, design, fraud, Graphic novel, Health Insurance, homicide, Illustration, Medicine, Parody, satire, Thriller, typography, vintage Leave a comment
Pulp Fiction Cover: ‘Dark Threat’
Posted: January 20, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: Book Cover, Books, Cover Art, Crime fiction, design, Illustration, Mystery, Noir, Paperback, Popular Library, pulp fiction, Rudolph Belarski, Thriller, typography, vintage 2 Comments
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 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Mediasphere | Tags: Babes, Book Cover, Crime, design, Egypt, graphics, Helpless Women, hostage, Illustration, Magazine, New Detective, Rafael DeSoto, typography Leave a comment
Things a Boy can do with Electricity
Posted: August 23, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Science & Technology | Tags: A First Electrical Book for Boys, Alfred Morgan, Book Cover, design, Illustration, typography, vintage 2 Comments
