Australian Library’s Exhibit Is Unbearably Cute April 28, 2010

Blinky Bill Made His Debut In 1933, And Has Been The Best Pal Of Australian Kids Ever Since. Wall, Dorothy, 1894-1942. Blinky Bill : the quaint little Australian / story and decorations by Dorothy Wall. (Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1940). (Image Courtesy Of Monash University Library.) For American kids, it’s Curious George or The Cat In The Hat. For English kids it’s Peter Rabbit. But for Australian kids the most beloved mischief-maker in children’s…

At Yale University’s Library Recycling Is The Law April 26, 2010

A Page From: The Passion of Saint Alexander, Pope and Martyr, (Passio Sancti Alexandri martyris papae) circa 975-1075. Reused To Strengthen The Cover Of Flos testamnetorum By Rolandinus, de Passageriis, Published In Padua In 1482. (Images Courtesy Of The Lillian Goldman Law Library Rare Book Collection, Yale University.) The last weekend of April 2010 saw celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Citizens of the world were urged to “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,” to help…

Got The Blues, The Mean Reds, Or The Evil Yellows? April 23, 2010

Holly Golightly Battles “The Mean Reds” At Tiffany’s Truman Capote‘s Breakfast At Tiffany’s should be required reading for psychiatrists. Nobody ever painted a more terse and pithy picture of clinical depression than Holly Golightly: “You know those days when you’ve got the mean reds… the blues are because you’re getting fat or maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re sad, that’s all. But the mean reds are horrible. You’re afraid and you sweat like hell,…

Don Draper Eats A Naked Lunch April 21, 2010

Portrait Of The Artist As A Psychotic Junkie.Self-Portrait By William S. Burroughs, 1959.(Image Courtesy Of Columbia University Library.) There are a lot of weird parallels, or at least perpendiculars, between junkie hipster supreme William S. Burroughs (and/or his literary doppelganger William Lee), and Mad Men‘s Don Draper. I couldn’t get that idea out of my head after looking over an April 2010 online exhibit: Naked Lunch: The First Fifty Years. Columbia University curator, Gerald W.…

Kaplan Boxing Archive: From Contender To Champ April 19, 2010

Poster For An Exhibit of Materials From The Hank Kaplan Boxing Archive. (All Images Courtesy Of Hank Kaplan Boxing Archive At Brooklyn College.) The rags to riches story behind Brooklyn College‘s Hank Kaplan Boxing Archive just got a little richer: on April 16, 2010 the collection’s chief archivist, Professor Anthony Cucchiara, became the winner of a $315,000 endowment from the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) to organize the largest and most extensive boxing collection…

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