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Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Any time the story is focused on the details of the heist it stumbles, when it is focused on Grace and the battle between what she knows she should do and what ...

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The Art of Neil Gaiman by Hayley Campbell

Posted on July 26, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

I am not sure you can really know someone by reading about them but I think this is probably as close as you can get to understanding Gaiman without actually kn...

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The goal of art is something grand—a glimpse of living mystery.

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Walter Pater famously said that all art continually aspires to the condition of music. Not arranged pieces inside a box—though that might well be what the work ...

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My Brother's Book by Maurice Sendak

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

I think most of this very short book just went over my head. I'm not real knowledgeable about his life or the literature and art from which it seems to draw it...

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Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

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Stories from the Bible illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

This is more coffee table art book than children's Bible, but within that framework it is a beautiful book. It is a classic sure to never go out of style.

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