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Coffee-Table Books with a Jagged Edge

By Joy Press

The Village Voice | December 1, 2004

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.

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Tags: Various Authors, Holiday Coffee-Table Books

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