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  • Mark Dery
    8:56 am Tue, Dec 18, 2018
    Edward Gorey's macabre tarot deck from 1966

    Some Boing Boing readers may know Edward Gorey without knowing it. The author and illustrator of a 100 (or so) ironic-gothic, darkly droll little picture books with titles like The… Read the rest of the article: Edward Gorey's macabre tarot deck from 1966

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  • Mark Dery
    3:03 pm Wed, Oct 31, 2018
    Lisa Kereszi's creepy photos of low-budget scare attractions

    [Note: disturbing photos below] Lisa Kereszi "has an eye for the kind of detail that makes you feel like slitting your throat," Sarah Boxer writes in her New York Times… Read the rest of the article: Lisa Kereszi's creepy photos of low-budget scare attractions

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  • Mark Dery
    9:00 am Tue, Apr 10, 2018
    Book review: Melancholy Accidents

    With guns on the public mind, now might be a good time to read Melancholy Accidents: Three Centuries of Stray Bullets and Bad Luck, an anthology of newspaper accounts of… Read the rest of the article: Book review: Melancholy Accidents

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  • Mark Dery
    2:10 pm Thu, Aug 10, 2017
    Let's deconstruct Nixon's "Resignation Lunch," shall we? (Photo: Robert Knudsen/Nixon Library. All rights reserved.)

    "I want to know exact details, hard information about everything!" J.G. Ballard told an interviewer, in the pre-Internet year of 1982.

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  • Mark Dery
    2:04 pm Thu, Aug 10, 2017
    "Monster Imagery Taught Me I Was a Monster": Riva Lehrer on Beauty, Deformity, Disability

    Standing in the Mütter Museum of medical oddities, contemplating a neat row of  jars, each containing a malformed fetus with spina bifida, Riva Lehrer realized just how easily she, too,… Read the rest of the article: "Monster Imagery Taught Me I Was a Monster": Riva Lehrer on Beauty, Deformity, Disability

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  • Mark Dery
    11:02 am Mon, Aug 7, 2017
    Hawk Moon: Sam Shepard's Forgotten First Book

    In the flurry of obituaries for Sam Shepard, who died last Thursday, at 73, from complications related to Lou Gehrig's disease, the playwright and actor appears in close up, as… Read the rest of the article: Hawk Moon: Sam Shepard's Forgotten First Book

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  • Mark Dery
    5:34 pm Fri, Jul 28, 2017
    Chemist of Mysteries: Man Ray's Dream Photos

    Minimalist and modern-sounding, Man Ray is the sort of name that seems as if it should be outlined in buzzing neon. Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia on August 27, 1890,… Read the rest of the article: Chemist of Mysteries: Man Ray's Dream Photos

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  • Mark Dery
    9:13 am Mon, Jan 11, 2016
    The stars look very different today

    "The stars look very different today." I've written, on several occasions, though most revealingly here, about glam's desperate importance to those of us marooned in the beige, tract-home nightmare of… Read the rest of the article: The stars look very different today

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  • Mark Dery
    4:00 am Thu, Jul 16, 2015
    A Series of Unfortunate Questions for Daniel Handler

    The legendary Lemony Snicket is headed to the high seas for a new adventure under his other name. But where's he coming from?

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  • Mark Dery
    4:00 am Fri, Apr 10, 2015
    The Ecstasist: A Conversation with the Novelist Jonathan Lethem

    Defender, to the death, of Jack Kirby's Fourth World saga. Architect of Philip K. Dick's induction into the Library of America. College drop-out. MacArthur Genius. Comic-book guy. Jonathan Lethem is a man of obscure obsessions and unabashed passions.

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  • Mark Dery
    5:48 am Tue, Feb 17, 2015
    Eat the Rude: Hannibal Lecter meets the 99%

    The good doctor's tastes illustrate our insecurities about class. Here's what's really on the menu in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal

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  • Mark Dery
    5:00 am Mon, Feb 2, 2015
    Let's put the guilt back in guilty pleasures

    Guilty pleasures aren't always merely self-loathing elitism or ironic tastelessness. They can also be a sign of genuine ambivalence—a feeling to cherish.

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  • Mark Dery
    7:39 am Wed, Jan 21, 2015
    Self-Dissection: a conversation with satirical English author Will Self

    Will Self suffers from "everythingitis." Why aren't we surprised?

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  • Mark Dery
    5:20 am Tue, Nov 25, 2014
    Death, Science, Sexology: Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Museum

    Mark Dery shines a light into the literary unconscious of Joanna Ebenstein, director of the Morbid Anatomy Museum.

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  • Mark Dery
    11:00 am Thu, Oct 16, 2014
    Solitary Vices: Mikita Brottman on the Books in Her Life

    Mark Dery talks with the critic and psychoanalyst about the terrors of reading.

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  • Mark Dery
    4:00 am Tue, Aug 5, 2014
    William S. Burroughs and the Dead-End Horror of the Centipede God

    Mark Dery takes a deep, dark look at the world of Chilopodophobia, compliments of William Burroughs.

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  • Mark Dery
    5:45 am Tue, May 27, 2014
    The Rat King: On the Fascinations (and Revulsions) of Rattus

    In what he calls "an Experiment in Controlled Digression," Mark Dery touches on xenogastronomy, ortolan, Edible Dormouse, Victor Hugo's fondness for rat pâté, rat-baiting as a betting sport in Victorian times, the rat as New York's unofficial mascot, Luis Buñuel's pet rat, scientific research into such pressing questions as whether rats laugh, and whether rats will inherit the Earth as a result of climate change, Dracula's dominion over rats, and of course the (cryptozoological myth? well-documented phenomenon?) of the Rat King.

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  • Mark Dery
    12:30 am Wed, May 7, 2014
    The revenge of the lawn

    Author Mark Dery charts America's ecocidal obsession with nice grass

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  • Mark Dery
    9:11 am Thu, Dec 5, 2013
    Original Ballantine book cover concept art for J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings on eBay

    Tolkien, perhaps rightly in marketing terms, though with the insistent literalism that makes writers writers (which is to say: not artists), demanded, of Barbara Remington's cover art for Lord of… Read the rest of the article: Original Ballantine book cover concept art for J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings on eBay

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  • Mark Dery
    7:00 am Mon, Feb 18, 2013
    Nerval's Lobster: Is walking a crustacean any more ridiculous than a dog?

    Before Rimbaud, before the Surrealists, there was Nerval (1808 – 1855), living his life as if it were a lucid dream. Of course, it didn't hurt that his mental skies flickered with the chain lightning of madness—bouts of insanity that condemned him to periodic stays in asylums and, ultimately, self-murder.

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