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Common wisdom has it, I think, that, word for word, quip by quip, writer/producer/actress Tina Fey is our leading candidate for modern-age version of Dorothy Parker.

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It’s a theatrical occasion when a celebrated playwright gets around to publishing his memoirs and reveals how a play is born.

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For its original voyage, The USS Enterprise was deployed on a five-year mission that fell slightly short of its initial goal.

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“an important entry into the literature of American dance history. It deserves recognition as a classic.”

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“a very enjoyable addition to this year’s crop of Hollywood memoirs.”

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John Lahr just won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his penetrating biography of Tennessee Williams.

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Think of any team in the comic universe and they undoubtedly owe a debt of gratitude and inspiration to The Justice Society of America.

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New York Times arts journalist Eric Grode’s The Book of Broadway is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book with capsule histories of each show.

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With a mixture of the violence that Dashiell Hammett brought to Red Harvest, the wild characters that filled the stories of Damon Runyon and the humanity at the center of O.

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For decades Milt Gross’ New York was considered to be one of the great lost graphic novels of comic literature.

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“Another perfect volume in DC’s Celebration series.”

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Black Broadway is a wonderful book. . . . lushly illustrated with oversized historic photographs . . . genius . . .”

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“I do the obsessive thing for you,” says the author, “so you can go and have fun.”

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“There is tremendous beauty found in the obscure, forgotten, and lost corners of an artist’s attic. This collection is a peek into Ditko’s attic.”

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“To this latest book (a collection of good-sized pieces for The New York Review of Books and quite a few, well, bad-sized ones, little nuggets he wrote as speeches or trib

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“As always Buruma is a reporter first; he does not argue a particular side without citation and witness.

“. . . an interesting and accessible take on comics’ place in literature, popular culture, and women’s history.”

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Over the past few decades, superheroes, villains, and other characters taken from the pages of comic books have become as much a part of American mythology as Rip Van Winkle, Paul Bunyan, and Johnn

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“. . . pretty damned good . . .”

Sinemania! is a madcap of a thing—in the Schiaparelli sense of the word.

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“The details of debauchery and depravation told within these pages would make a casual sinner blush . . .”

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“Stay, Illusion! is not a graceful gavotte but a gallop through the fields of thought . . .”

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“. . . stereotype . . . of the fusty Oxbridge academic harrumphing at a changing world that does not correlate with his own. . . . not particularly funny.”

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“If the civil war crippled the South then air conditioning finished it off.”

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“Daily Rituals is a delightful exploration of the personalities and private-moment quirks of artists and writers . . .”

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