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Coffee-Table Books with a Jagged Edgenew
Buying a coffee-table book once conferred a sense of your own good taste. It was only a matter of time before publishers began catering to the downwardly aspirational, offering cheap (well, not that cheap) voyages into other people's fringe or freaky existences.
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
12-01-2004 |
Nonfiction
Subterranean Homesick Bluesnew
While most people in New York canvass the city's surface for bars and parks, or look toward the sky or ocean for added entertainment, Solis has a long history of reaching below the earth's crust and noting what goes on beneath that superficial first layer of dirt.
The Village Voice |
Amy Braunschweiger |
11-24-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Media Plunges Into Orgy of Hypocrisy Over Kelley's Latest Tell-Allnew
The more Kitty Kelley talked to the media about her new book, the more she resembled a successful society madam explaining the facts of life to a puritanical young D.A. who wants to save society by closing the local whorehouse.
The Village Voice |
John Powers |
09-21-2004 |
Nonfiction
