by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 15, 2016 | Books, Music, News, people
And the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature goes to. . . Bob Dylan! What?! Why not?! No question that this was a controversial award. There are many who have applauded it, but there are a vocal few who feel that giving this award to a white, American song-writer who has...
by Dale Dalenberg | May 24, 2015 | Antique Book Reports, Books, Reviews, Vintage
Great Books from The Dalenberg Library: In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, by Douglas Curran (Abbeville Press, originally published 1985; updated and expanded 2001) Mr. Curran started out as a photographer with an interest in snapping...
by Dale Dalenberg | Apr 20, 2015 | Antique Book Reports, Books, Reviews
The Original Flying Saucer Exposé: Donald Keyhoe’s “The Flying Saucers Are Real” By Dale D. Dalenberg MD The Gold Medal paperback originals are a cornerstone of the Dalenberg Library of Antique Popular Literature. We have a handful of them from 1950,...
by Alex Dalenberg | Jan 5, 2015 | Books, Vintage
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.January 5, 2015It was Robert Frost who likened writing free verse to playing tennis with the net down. And in keeping with that opinion, it certainly is easy to get the impression that most modern poetry is just lazy writing. ...
by Alex Dalenberg | Dec 29, 2014 | Books, Vintage
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.December 29, 2014A cornerstone of the Dalenberg Library is a collection of about six-hundred 19th Century dime novels. These are the wellspring from which pop-lit (as we know it from the 20th Century) evolved. The dime novels,...
by Alex Dalenberg | Oct 14, 2014 | Books, Vintage
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.October 13, 2014In 1931, well before Theodor Seuss Geisel published the childrens’ books for which he achieved his fame, he was drawing ads for Flit insect spray and publishing cartoons in magazines, most notably Life and the...
