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Welcome to the McLuhan Dome! Tonight: “hot” print vs. “cool” comic book.

When did murder in a bookshop or library become a middlebrow meme?…

You know anything about rare books?

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Ellen (Gene Tierney) reads to Richard (Cornel Wilde) from his own (middlebrow)…

Chess sets, and Scrabble, certainly. But not Battleship, Mastermind, Risk, Monopoly, Clue?…

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Meta-commentary: Researching pulp cover illustrations in which books are featured is exceedingly…

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Chris Burden offers a distilled narrative in proto-Powerpoint. It only has one…

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Scene from The 39 Steps (d. Hitchcock: 1935), in which Sheriff Watson…

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This book-shaped object is a Tabloid-brand medicine box, manufactured by the British…

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House of Mystery #201 (April, 1972). Cover illustration by Michael Kaluta. ***…

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*** Eighth in an occasional series.

Gregory Green, <em>Book Bomb #8</em> (1994)

Gregory Green’s Book Bomb #8 (1994). From the artist’s gallery’s website: Since…

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Title: “This is the enemy.” Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. G.P.O. :…

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A Kindle just wouldn’t work as well in this propaganda poster, would…

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Sculpture by unknown artist — image found on Flickr and sent into…

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Artist: Broder, S. Title: “Books are weapons in the war of ideas…

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From John Holbo’s Pulp Mystery photostream on Flickr. *** Second in an…

Death in the Library

In the game Clue there’s a library, but no little plastic book…