“Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have” – J.G. Ballard was born on this day in 1930.

Michael H. Miller went to see Mike Tyson at the New York Public Library.

The old mansions of Manhattan.

CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley in death and afterlife.

John Dwyer from Thee Oh Sees has a book of his photography out.

Benjamin Wallace’s “Who Killed Michael Hastings?” is really worth reading.

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