Feb 1, 2018
[Philosophy is] looking for a black cat in a dark room where there is not cat. [Religion is] when you think you've found the cat.
Dik Browne (Creator of Hagar the Horrible)
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[Philosophy is] looking for a black cat in a dark room where there is not cat. [Religion is] when you think you've found the cat.
Dik Browne (Creator of Hagar the Horrible)
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Chartwell Manor by Glenn Head No one asks for the childhood they get, and no child ever deserves to go to Chartwell Manor. For Glenn Head, his two years spent at the now-defunct Mendham, NJ, boarding school β run by a serial sexual and emotional abuser of young boys in the early 1970s β left emotional scars in ways that he continues to process. This graphic memoir β a book almost 50 years inβ¦
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Cartoon County by Cullen Murphy
The strength of good memoir often rests in its willingness to open up the perspective, embrace secondary characters, and put even the smallest bit players into chronological and cultural context. In Cullen Murphy's warm and generous Cartoon County... the reader feels both comfortable and...
Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe by Cullen Murphy http://amzn.to/2CCpX0F
Cullen Murphy talks about growing up around cartoons (and cartoonists) on SmartyPants.Β
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Picked up Cartoon County on a whim from the library. Such an excellent account of a particular era of cartooning, and the artists who made them, who surprisingly all lived in Fairfield County, CT, not far from where I grew up.Β
Author Cullen Murphy talks to Terry Gross about the use of torture during the Inquisition:
Many people in the Bush administration were insisting [it] was not torture at all. The Inquisition was actually very clear on the matter. It obviously was torture. That's why they were using it.
The director Kathryn Bigelow has faced a great deal of criticism for her depictions of torture in her film Zero Dark Thirty, about the killing of Osama bin Laden. She responded to that criticism this week in the LA Times. Here, too, is the Fresh Air interview from 2009 with Bigelow about The Hurt Locker.
Cullen Murphy tells Terry Gross about how the invention of the printing press impacted the third Inquisition:
For a long time, the church had had an effective monopoly on the intellectual life in Europe. Publishing was something that involved copying manuscripts. ... Suddenly, there's a new technology on the block. And the church sees this as a threat. So the church sees a combined attack β from the printing press and the Protestant Reformation β [and that] is really the thing that instigates the third Inquisition. ... This is the Inquisition that puts Galileo on trial. ... It's the Inquisition that starts the index of forbidden books.
Image of the Gutenberg Bible via History.com