Thursday, November 15, 2007

A singing mouse, an enormous head, a walking skeleton

Michael Kimmelman at the Times on Ricky Jay's collection of circus broadsides.

(NB--this is the scholar in me--that should be "anti-Jacobite" rather than "anti-Jacobean.")
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2 comments:

  1. Levi Stahl11/15/2007 12:19 PM

    I haven't seen the book he published of these broadsides, but I really love his Jay's Journal of Anomalies.

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  2. Alice11/16/2007 8:29 AM

    I did not think it was possible to love Ricky Jay any more than I already did, but this show looks great! Do you remember Mark Singer's New Yorker profile of him several years ago (collected in Character Studies)? It's wonderful.

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