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Screening the Past: Sergio Leone
A review of the reprint by Christopher Frayling.
‘Tarde as Media Theorist’: an interview with Tony D. Sampson, by Jussi Parikka
Appearing in Theory, Culture & Society.
PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of January 28, 2013
Stories from Jonestown by Leigh Fondakowski featured among PW's picks.
An Art Historian Reflects on the Beauty and Significance of Hubble Telescope Imagery
io9 on Elizabeth Kessler's Picturing the Cosmos.
NYT: Rags to Reams, but Maybe Not Riches
THE FIRST PANORAMAS by Denise Blake Oleksijczuk mentioned in New York Times Art & Design piece.
Lipstick Traces
Novelist Clarice Lispector's radiant nothingness
Exchanging Clothes: Recommended for fashion scholars, academic librarians
Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS) reviews Exchanging Clothes: Habits of Being 2, edited by Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz.
For those who seek the gold of time.
A ScienceFiction.com review of Kawamata Chiaki's DEATH SENTENCES.
Sneak Preview: “Nobody joins a cult”
State-Journal Register review of Leigh Fondakowski's STORIES FROM JONESTOWN.
"One of the best evocations not only of Robert Johnson but the blues scene of the time ever written."
BlogCritics reviews LOVE IN VAIN by Alan Greenberg.
LSE on Anime's Media Mix
The London School of Economics and Political Science's Review of Books looks at Marc Steinberg's book.
Minneapolis broken water main was installed in 1891
Kare 11 talks with author Greg Brick (Subterranean Twin Cities) about the Twin Cities underground.
THE on Worm Work
Times Higher Education reviews Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism by Janelle Schwartz.
The Year in Books 2012: Worth a Second Look
Includes Mark Dery's I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts.
Searching for Robert Johnson
LOVE IN VAIN by Alan Greenberg is "a mythic tale of the 20th century and still deserves to find a filmmaker in the 21st."
LA Weekly: A New Book About Jonestown, the West Coast Cult That Led to a Massacre
Feature on Stories from Jonestown by Leigh Fondakowski.
Alphaville: Recording Reality, Desiring the Real
Elizabeth Cowie's book "will undoubtedly become required reading for anyone considering documentary filmmaking or the application of psychoanalytic theory in film studies."
The Americas: Collecting Mexico
Review of Shelley Garrigan's book.
Dave Orrick's outdoors reading suggestions for the long winter ahead
NORTHERN PIKE by Rodney Pierce featured among the Pioneer Press's recommendations for winter reading.
ND: Blue Guitar Highway and the Twin Cities music scene
A review of Paul Metsa's memoir in No Depression.