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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Art of the Dead
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I just got my copy of Philip Cushway's Art of the Dead (reading line: A Celebration of the Artists Behind the American Rock Poster Move...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Mother Jones's Mitt Romney Story
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Lots of talk, of course, about Mitt Romney's 47% speech, and now the inside-baseball stories are starting to come out. The New York Time...
West of Eden
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I've been dipping in and out of a book I received from PM Press earlier this year called West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern C...
Sunday, September 09, 2012
Bear House
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I took a small contingent by 6024 Ascot in Montclair today. Turns out the house, which was owned by Owsley Stanley, can be had for a mere ...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
RNC Redux
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You may have seen the story out of the Republican National Convention. Two RNC attendees were ejected after throwing nuts at a black CNN c...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Season of the Witch
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I just finished reading David Talbot's Season of the Witch , which the good folks at Free Press sent along at my request. I received it ...
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Subversives ... and Richard Aoki
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My review of Seth Rosenfeld's book, Subversives , ran on Truthdig last week and received a fair amount of traffic. As it turns out, So...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Lincoln Steffens
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I just finished reading Peter Hartshorn's I Have Seen the Future: A Life of Lincoln Steffens . I was drawn to it by my interest in Carey...
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Saturday, August 11, 2012
BANG!
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Just got my third call this week on behalf of the Bay Area News Group. Do yourself a big favor. Stay away from these people. I wanted to s...
Monday, July 09, 2012
Philip Fradkin RIP
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I learned today that Philip Fradkin passed away. I knew he was ill because I stood in for him at a recent awards conference. (Two of his UC...
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