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TITANS OF HISTORY: THE GIANTS WHO MADE OUR WORLD by Simon Sebag Montefiore

with John Bew, Martyn Frampton, Dan Jones and Claudia Renton Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Shakespeare’s Polonius said that brevity is wit’s soul, so he’d certainly bash the “limbs and outward flourishes” of my usual long-winded tedium, but I must say that, more often than not, the longest and heaviest biographies seem to be the best ones. This may …

MARVELOCITY: THE MARVEL COMICS ART OF ALEX ROSS by Alex Ross and Chip Kidd

Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ “My dear young friend,” said Mustapha Mond, “civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency.” – Brave New World …I just marvel. – Hedy Lamarr Make Minds Marvel There are too many spiels on how comic books amount to modern-day mythology while exhibiting the visceral storytelling …

David Herrle interviews Todd Tarbox, author of ORSON WELLES AND ROGER HILL

David: I can’t tell you how delighted I was to discover Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts. You had me at…ahem…Hill and O. It’s mentioned in Patrick McGilligan’s astute Young Orson biography, which is quite an honor. Unlike the transcript-style This is Orson Welles and My Lunches With Orson, your book …