Interview with Beverly Cleary
The Atlantic interviews author Beverly Cleary, probably most famous for her Ramona books and pairs the interview with a literary pilgrimage to Cleary’s homes.
Confidential File: Horror Comic Books
Responsible newsmen, expert psychiatrists, concerned parents. Learn about the dangers of horror comic books with this complete edition of the 1950s television series, “Confidential File: Horror Comic Books.” (via @PeterGutierrez)
The Cat and the Coup
In The Cat and the Coup you are a cat, specifically Mohammed Mossadegh’s cat. Who was he? The first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran who was overthrown in a CIA-funded coup . The game looks like Persian miniatures. It has music by Nine Inch Nails. And it’s […]
The Study of Air
Marcel Duchamp is ahead of all of us once again: “Who knew that Duchamp would also loosely anticipate the emerging field of internal atmospheric forensics, deployed as evidence in a U.S. murder case?” More about Duchamps’ 50 CC of Paris Air, the historical study of air environments and […]
Jim Munroe’s Rapture
The Gutter will help you get ready for the Rapture in Chicago with Gutter Founding Editor Jim Munroe’s Therefore, Repent! (free here) and the sequel set in Post-Rapture Detroit, Sword of My Mouth, featuring excellent art Shannon Gerrard. The Rapture isn’t what we think it is. (Full disclosure: […]
Badass Women of the Pulp Era
14 Badass Women of the Pulp Era from around the world.
The Cultural Gutter 