Category Archives: Books

The Quiz Kids

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Elizabeth Thomsen

I ran across this postcard on CardCow last week. It’s one of the preprinted cards sent to people who submitted questions to the popular Quiz Kids radio program. As an old time radio buff, I knew that the program featured … Continue reading →

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Diners : People and Places

Posted on July 19, 2007 by Elizabeth Thomsen

Diners : People and Places Photographs by Gerd Kittel; Introduction by Richard F. Snow This is a slim volume of color photographs of classic diners, mostly in New York and New England, taken by German photographer Gerd Kittel. It’s a … Continue reading →

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America by the Yard

Posted on July 15, 2007 by Elizabeth Thomsen

America by the Yard: Cirkut Camera: Images from the Early Twentieth Century by Robert B. MacKay This is a hefty book that’s over fifteen inches wide, and that weighs nearly six pounds, an inconvenient size for putting on a bookshelf, … Continue reading →

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Dog Years : A Memoir

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Elizabeth Thomsen

Dog Years is poet Mark Doty’s story of his two dogs, Arden and Beau, and their shared joys and sorrows. Mark and Arden are living alone with Mark’s lover Wally, who is dying of AIDS, when Mark decides to get … Continue reading →

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