Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
I've finally gotten around to finishing Susan Tyler Hitchcock's Frankenstein: A Cultural History.
When the book was published I hesitated, because I have a pretty good grounding in the history of horror and film, and also did a fair amount of resource gathering in my old job for Betty T. ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s monumental biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer was published in 2005 and won the National Book Critic's Award for Biography, as well as sweeping accolades from historians. It took me two years to get around to reading it, but I ...
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