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.Arts
Jan 8, 1998
Got the Milkman?
FROM BOTH aesthetic and economic standpoints, comics are in bad shape these days. Several years ago, the largest companies--Marvel and DC--set up exclusive arrangements...
.Arts
Dec 4, 1997
The Beat Master
BEFORE Jack Kerouac, before Allen Ginsberg, there was ... Herbert Huncke? Though born a year after William Burroughs, Huncke (1915-1996) had been living an underground life...
.Arts
Oct 30, 1997
A View of Debut
DEBUT RECORDS was one of the first record labels owned by musicians--and not just any musicians, but jazz legends bassist Charlie Mingus and drummer...
.Arts
Aug 14, 1997
Joyce on a Mission
IF ANYONE remembers Samuel Ornitz at all today, it's as a screenwriter who was one of the Hollywood 10; his reputation as a novelist...
.Arts
Jan 2, 1997
Clear as a Clarinet
DURING THE heyday of big bands (193545), top jazz clarinetists abounded. Several--Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman--led highly popular outfits. For some...
.Arts
Dec 5, 1996
Twinned Vision
THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS of Miles Davis and Gil Evans rank with those of Louis Armstrong/Earl Hines and Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie as among the most noteworthy two-man efforts...
.Arts
Nov 27, 1996
Magical Mexican
MANY READERS will find Fernando del Paso's great novel Palinuro of Mexico--at long last available in an American edition nearly 20 years after its creation--daunting...
.Arts
Oct 10, 1996
Russian Escape Artist
IN THE SECOND half of the 19th century, Russia produced an abundance of outstanding fiction writers. Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov and Gogol just begin...
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