Holiday Book Bonanza ’09:
Noralee Frankel
Noralee Frankel shares her favorite books.
Noralee Frankel shares her favorite books.
An excerpt from Cholera: The Biography
An excerpt from Hysteria: The Biography.
An excerpt from Asthma: The Biography.
An excerpt from Diabetes: The Biography.
An excerpt from Golgi: A Biography of the Founder of Modern Neuroscience.
An excerpt from Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.
An excerpt from Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s.
An excerpt from Albie Sach’s book The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law.
In memory of Bobby Graham.
A video of Benjamin Moser.
A post in honor of this great musician.
Author Elliott J. Gorn looks at John Dillinger films.
A look at Gypsy Rose Lee.
An excerpt from the late Professor Henry Chadwick’s recently-discovered biography of Augustine of Hippo.
I’m reasonably sure that most American boys who reached adolescence in the 1960s knew Dillinger’s dick. It was enormous, preserved in formaldehyde at the Smithsonian Institution. Friends of mine who grew up on the east coast told me years later that on high school trips to Washington, the boys would spread out and look for it.