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‘The Book of William’ Explores Shakespeare By Focusing on the First Folio
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‘The Book of William’ Explores Shakespeare By Focusing on the First Folio

On December 19, 2018 by Matt Keeley

A review of Paul Collins’ book “The Book of William,” which is not a book about William Shakespeare, but rather, the First Folio.

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‘The Box’ Tells the History of Television From Creation to Vast Wasteland
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‘The Box’ Tells the History of Television From Creation to Vast Wasteland

On December 17, 2018 by Matt Keeley

A review of Jeff Kisseloff’s “The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1928-1961,” which describes the early day of everyone’s favorite medium.

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The Comics Journal’s Book of Harvey Kurtzman Interviews Is Utterly Essential
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The Comics Journal’s Book of Harvey Kurtzman Interviews Is Utterly Essential

On December 4, 2018 by Matt Keeley

A review of a book of interviews from the Comics Journal with Harvey Kurtzman, exploring his career from ‘Hey Look!’ to ‘Little Annie Fanny.’

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Never Be at a Loss for Words with Richard Herring’s Emergency Questions
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Never Be at a Loss for Words with Richard Herring’s Emergency Questions

On October 16, 2018 by Matt Keeley

Comedian Richard Herring has been using Emergency Questions on his podcast for years, and now you can ask people if they’ve been to Barometer World.

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Review: You Don’t Know Me But You Don’t Like Me

On February 17, 2014 by Matt Keeley

I always have enjoyed Nathan Rabin’s writing — first at the AV Club and now at The Dissolve.  His memoir The Big Rewind was outstanding, as was his book on Weird Al.  (And, of course, his My Year Of Flops project for…

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Review: Exploding The Phone

On February 8, 2014 by Matt Keeley

This almost feels like a companion volume to The Idea Factory — the other side of the phone company.  Phil Lapsley’s book, Exploding the Phone, is an absolutely fascinating book on the history of phone phreaking, or exploring the phone network (and…

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Review: Mindsploitation

On August 7, 2013 by Matt Keeley

I never thought that there could be a book adaptation of Final Flesh, but then Vernon Chatman follows that film up with Mindsploitation, which… kinda is.  With Final Flesh, he found a couple of porn studios that would let you write up…

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Review: What I’d Say To The Martians

On August 3, 2013 by Matt Keeley

When I was younger, for whatever reason, I thought that Jack Handey was actually Al Franken.  The idea that Jack Handey — known most for the “Deep Thoughts” segments on Saturday Night Live — was a pseudonym is a surprisingly common one….

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Review: Making WET

On June 11, 2013 by Matt Keeley

I guess I have a soft-spot for weird, short-lived magazines.  I’ve talked about how much I love RAW here before, and now I’ve just read Leonard Koren’s book Making WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing about, well, making WET: The Magazine of…

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Review: The Idea Factory

On June 9, 2013 by Matt Keeley

Bell Labs was awesome, and Jon Gertner’s new book The Idea Factory sets out to prove this simple fact.  The Bell Laboratories (funded by AT&T when they were a government-sanctioned monopoly) was the place where vacuum tubes were improved and ultimately replaced…

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