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Ed Gentry’s white tennis shoes

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Chaplain Tappman’s rubber-soled brown shoes

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Stephen Dedalus’ broadtoed boots

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Why are lowbrow utopias haunted by quatsch?

[Bookplate of the War Service Library]

A delightful legacy technology of the bibliosphere.

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“‘Grow up!’ — that is the motto of Highbrow.”

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Discovering love and forgiveness in the shaping of letters.

The man who rescued Harper’s from Middlebrow.

Millennial Middlebrow!

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To analyze is to misinterpret.

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The 21st century has the potential to become a new Dark Age.

Or is it “Plastic Man”?

So long as the coarse texture of pop is not touched by a paltry culture…

Lipsyte trumps Eggers

A never-before-published interview with cartoonist Kim Deitch!

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Caught between techno-apologists and paleobibliophiles.

Throwing money: high minded or mean spirited?

Matthew Battles on Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City.

Techno-catastrophe strikes our fifth podcast.

The first half of our 5th Radium-Age sf podcast!

Gabriel De Tarde’s “Fragment d’histoire future” — a recording

American Leisure vs. Chinese Loafing

George Allen England’s DARKNESS AND DAWN — a recording

Edmond Hamilton’s THE POLAR DOOM — a recording.