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#84 — Stanley

Stan Stan – Always worth a visit, Coudal’s ongoing pile of links about Stanley Kubrick. There goes the rest of your day.  Same Same – Can’t wait to get my mitts on the first novel by pianist/designer/author Peter Mendelsund. According to the New York Times, It’s a

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#83 — OBEY

OBEY – Rough Trade have been storming this whole publishing lark of late. Craig Oldham’s new celebration of John Carpernter’s They Live is particularly stunning introduction to their new Epiphany Editions series, featuring fictional books from films made for real.  The era of statement wallpaper and fatty text – an

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#082 — Look

Meaning, history, value, mechanics and future.

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#081 — Dinosaurs

Making its way onto my bookshelf and into my brain this week, Kenneth Lacovara’s Why Dinosaurs Matter, expanded from his 2016 TED talk. Every page is littered with paleontological anecdotes (paleontodotes?) and mind-blowing facts, a long-overdue correction to the wildly incorrect dinosaur books of my childhood. Did you know

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#80 — Velocity

He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

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#79 — Marginalia

Abandoned military checkpoints and beautiful margins.

Mike Mignola’s Heart of Darkness

What is it about Mike Mignola’s black? It seems blacker than other blacks. Deeper, darker, inkier. It drags you into a version of the world in which shadow is the natural state of things; light is merely something that happens in the in-between. His black seeps into everything, and

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#78 — Maelstrom

Joyful self-destructions, an Australian bar-brawl and a missile called Blue Steel.

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#77 — Feeling

Feuding brothers, thwarted lovers, and a lot of spoiled views.

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#76 — dinkus

But the real culprit was a teacher with an old map.

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#75 — Ethics

Prussian blue can release cyanide, which is fun.

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#74 — Wendig

A lot at one time at varying, sporadic points.