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The Plotted Genius Of Jack Kerouac’s Divine On The Road Scroll

Jack Kerouac's 1962 essay for Writer’s Digest “Are Writers Made or Born?" begins: Writers are ...

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The Beast of Birkenshaw: The Brutal Crimes of Scottish Serial Killer Peter Manuel

Picture the scene: New Year's Day, 1958, a killer sits at a breakfast table eating ...

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Cor!: The vintage Comic Capers of Benny Hill

Benny Hill was funny. Benny Hill was often exceedingly funny. At best: his comedy was ...

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Meals in a Mold: The Mid-Century’s Love Affair with Gelatin

The end of World War II heralded a time of peace for much of ...

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Vintage Babes and Their 1950s Phallic Rockets

When it comes to phallic imagery, it doesn't get much more blatant than the image ...

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Found Photos: A Collection of Odd Photographic Finds

There's something about an old photograph with no context - no text, no background information, ...

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From Slingshots to Silly String: Celebrating Wham-O

Richard P. Knerr and Arthur K. "Spud" Melin were just a couple dudes in Southern ...

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Before Rowan Atkinson: The Original Blackadder

Long before Rowan Atkinson graced our screens as the conniving Prince Edmund Plantagenet, better ...

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Fabulous Covers from Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1950-1970

Lesbian Pulp Fiction There was an old secondhand bookshop in Edinburgh where I whiled away ...

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“If Husbands Only Knew”: Mid-Century Book Adverts of Sexual Anxiety, True Love and Smut

If you have the chance to pore through some vintage pulp magazines, you'll find ...

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Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Look at the Vintage Secretary

The "secretary" as the mid-century once knew her is forever gone. Like the stewardess, ...

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The Illuminated hipsters of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

As anyone who has read Jack Kerouac knows, his novels are filled with real ...

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