by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 3, 2019 | Antique Book Reports, Dalenberg Library Gallery
Nowadays, William Morris (1834-1896) is remembered as the Victorian artist famous for tapestry, furniture, and stained glass designs. But in his lifetime, he was chiefly known as a poet. He also has a certain fame since the 1970’s as one of the first fantasists...
by Dale Dalenberg | Jul 7, 2018 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
News travels slowly to Kansas. The Dalenberg Library just got word of the passing June 27 of the enfant terrible of science fiction, Harlan Ellison (5/27/34-6/27/18.) It is difficult to envision Ellison as an 84 year-old. He was somehow frozen in our mind as...
by Dale Dalenberg | Jun 10, 2018 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
Here is a real treasure from the vinyl collection. The first two Fantasy Records releases were 1950 recordings by The Dave Brubeck Trio. Here is the Fantasy compilation reissue from those sessions in 1956, pressed on red vinyl. Brubeck’s piano style is...
by Dale Dalenberg | Apr 25, 2018 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
After Traffic in Souls made the “100 Years, 100 Films” list as our entry for 1913, it seemed fitting to dig this treasure out of the stacks. Clearly the topic of “white slavery” was much in the news shortly before Word War I. Purporting to be...
by Dale Dalenberg | Apr 9, 2018 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
The Western conception of Alf Layla Wa Layla, or The Arabian Nights, or The Thousand Nights and a Night, has been influenced more by its European translators than by the original texts. In fact, there is no definitive original text of this massive work, which has...
by Dale Dalenberg | Mar 16, 2018 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
Richard Schickel (1933-2017) was a pillar of the community of film critics who rose to dominance in the later half of the 1960’s–he was film critic for Time Magazine from 1965-2010. This is the generation for whom films like Bonnie and Clyde were iconic,...
