by Walter Kraut | Sep 22, 2023 | Featured book
Also from 1969, but not quite the cutting edge masterpiece that was Slaughterhouse-Five, The Warlock of Love is Marc Bolan’s only book of poetry. It has, somewhat surprisingly given Bolan’s subsequent fame, never been reprinted. Bolan was twenty-two at...
by Walter Kraut | Sep 22, 2023 | Featured book
Published in the same year as Portnoy’s Complaint, in 1969, Slaughterhouse-Five is another comic (but much darker) masterpiece. Kurt Vonnegut’s genre-defying, time-hopping and utterly unique novel was based on his distressing experience as a pilot at the...
by Walter Kraut | Sep 22, 2023 | Featured book
Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) turned Philip Roth from a promising young writer into a literary superstar and celebrity. Gone were the literary constraints from his previous work and the influence of Henry James: this book was written to make us roar with laughter...
by Walter Kraut | Jan 28, 2022 | Featured book, Quinto Newsletter
The writer Nabokov is almost synonymous with his masterpiece Lolita, but he’s written many other fantastic books. Before he started writing in English (around 1940) Nabokov had published nine novels in his native Russian. After the enormous commercial success...
by Walter Kraut | Jan 28, 2022 | Featured book, Quinto Newsletter
Anders Holmquist’s brilliant photo essay, The Free People, documents the hippie lifestyle in the months leading up to (and including) the Woodstock Music Festival. “It’s a book about their music, their work, their mobility, what they read and what...
by Walter Kraut | Jan 28, 2022 | Featured book, Quinto Newsletter
The infamous Manhattan nightclub The World operated largely outside the law from the early 1980s until 1991 when its owner was found dead on the premises. This amazing and scarce book (published in 1988) consists of photographs by Stephan Lupino of the regulars and...