Speech is the twin of my vision…
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?
Ellen (Gene Tierney) reads to Richard (Cornel Wilde) from his own (middlebrow)…
Chess sets, and Scrabble, certainly. But not Battleship, Mastermind, Risk, Monopoly, Clue?…
Meta-commentary: Researching pulp cover illustrations in which books are featured is exceedingly…
Chris Burden offers a distilled narrative in proto-Powerpoint. It only has one…
Scene from The 39 Steps (d. Hitchcock: 1935), in which Sheriff Watson…
This book-shaped object is a Tabloid-brand medicine box, manufactured by the British…
House of Mystery #201 (April, 1972). Cover illustration by Michael Kaluta. ***…
*** Eighth in an occasional series.
Gregory Green’s Book Bomb #8 (1994). From the artist’s gallery’s website: Since…
Title: “This is the enemy.” Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. G.P.O. :…
A Kindle just wouldn’t work as well in this propaganda poster, would…
Sculpture by unknown artist — image found on Flickr and sent into…
Artist: Broder, S. Title: “Books are weapons in the war of ideas…
From John Holbo’s Pulp Mystery photostream on Flickr. *** Second in an…
In the game Clue there’s a library, but no little plastic book…
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