I recently picked up a fresh copy of Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut for my library to replace the previous copy I owned which was never returned by the careless individual that I lent it to. If you’ve never read the book and you’re into satire, you’re seriously missing out. Simply put, it’s ingenious [...]

I recently came across a very interesting photo set on Flickr displaying the inside of a 1962 book, Fallout Shelter Handbook. Today, the book is nothing more than a vintage collectible, however, it speaks volumes about American political propaganda during the height of the Cold War.
In particular, the cover is completely absurd. Note the suburban [...]

In The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City, author Elizabeth Currid articulates how the New York economy (one of the largest regional economies in the world) is propelled by the artists, writers, fashion designers and musicians that live there, equally as much as those in the white-collar/financial sectors. Since culture [...]