Ed Gentry’s white tennis shoes

Chaplain Tappman’s rubber-soled brown shoes

Stephen Dedalus’ broadtoed boots

Why are lowbrow utopias haunted by quatsch?

A delightful legacy technology of the bibliosphere.

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

Discovering love and forgiveness in the shaping of letters.

The man who rescued Harper’s from Middlebrow.

Millennial Middlebrow!

To analyze is to misinterpret.

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!

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.