This month’s Guest Star Aditi Sen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Queen’s University, Canada. When she isn’t working or watching horror films, she likes to collect Bollywood cakes. ~~~ In 1830, Colonel William Sleeman reported that a fakir and his young son were […]
The Gutter’s own Keith shares from bonus content from his book Cocktails & Capers. It’s all about the Pastry War, Lucha Libre and Cinco de Mayo. “Alas, to keep the book to a reasonable length and not completely lose readers, I ended up cutting the pages about this […]
The Public Domain Review shares some of their favorite books covers from 1820 to 1914.
The Dartmouth College Library ahs scans of the oldest extant comic book, Rodolphe Töpffer’s “The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck” (1837). (via @SoxOnTheBrain)
Poet Emily Dickinson shares her advice for spending the holidays alone.
A gallery of photographs of people of African descent from the Victorian era. (Via Kit Marlowe)
Find t-shirts, mugs, totes and more at our new Guttermart location at Teepublic!
Look as fancy as you can in Disreputable, the signature nailpolish designed for us by My Pretty Zombie Cosmetics.
