Monthly Archives: March 2014

NO LAST NAMES by Joan Ellis

March 2, 2014 – 7:21 pm

I love the cover of this book. A room with a view. 42nd Street or the Barbary Coast in San Francisco. Nothing like the Fortune Club or Lucky’s Bar exist anymore. The author of these books was Julie Ellis. She churned out hundreds of pulp sleaze, supposedly one a week. Acording to vintagesleazepaperbacks.blogspot.com a website […]

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MAYBE TOMORROW on Kindle

March 2, 2014 – 5:36 pm

Several years ago I went to a Nan Goldin show at the Whitney Museum with a Park Avenue divorcee. Claudia came from a good Philadelphia famiily and the black and white photos were a shock to her upper-class sensibilities. “These people look so tragic.” Her assessment of Nan Goldin’s subjects was true, but I knew […]

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